Zed with Kog'Maw
How to Synergize Zed and Kog'Maw
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Zed Kog'Maw Synergy Summary
Best Zed vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Zed with Kog'Maw
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Advice to Understand How Kog'Maw Will Play
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Zed Kog'Maw Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kog'Maw as Zed in LoL
The Zed Kog'Maw synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kog'Maw, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kog'Maw. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kog'Maw helps Zed perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Kog'Maw, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Kog'Maw supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Kog'Maw on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kog'Maw. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kog'Maw.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Kog'Maw on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Kog'Maw does a poor job of protecting Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Kog'Maw
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Is Zed better when played alongside Kog'Maw?
There is no top ally for Zed that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Kog'Maw is a very typical ally for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 47.4%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Zed and Kog'Maw that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kog'Maw has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kog'Maw teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Zed and Kog'Maw together, you will not be granting your side very much engage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kog'Maw ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to synergize with Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Zed and Kog'Maw synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kog'Maw than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 47.4% helping carry Kog'Maw with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Zed players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Zed and Kog'Maw pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.4% winrate overall.
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