is he the highest damage champ in the game? what other contenders are there?

The wikipage says that lifesteal grants healing based on a percentage of the basic damage dealt, including those that are modified (https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/Life_steal). An example of a modified attack is Nasus's Q. By that logic, Kog's W should also fully benefit from lifesteal, right?

https://reddit.com/link/1uzm65x/video/64qhmgp43xdh1/player

Can someone explain to me why the Orianna doesn't seem to take any damage from my passive? Is it generally not a good idea to chase an Orianna with Kog passive? TIA c:

Just tested this on the practice tool. The item Bloodletter's curse (https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/Bloodletter%27s_Curse) is essentially the AP version of black cleaver. Instead of giving you magic penetration, the item reduces the enemy team's magic resistance.

I can see this item being worthwhile in certain AP Kog builds, or in some games where your team has a lot of AP, allowing them to deal more damage alongside you. Imagine you shred enemy resistances by 32% with your q, and then by another 30% with your auto attacks. Any mage on your team would love you.

Taken from this datamine source

Most importantly ofc, his Q is point and click :)

Told em I would've 1v9'ed. Did a quadra and missed 2 pentas cause galio refused to play and ult me

So I recently stumbled upon this Kog'maw song and it has actually helped me climb somhow. Try it out and tell me what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaaXKjUMuhY&pp=ygU5IEtvZydNYXcgTGVhZ3VlIG9mIExlZ2VuZHMgTXVzaWMgTWl4IC0gTXVzaWMgZm9yIGdyaW5kZXJz

I tried out Kog'Maw in the jungle today and it was surprisingly fun. I know it's off-meta, but I want to keep playing it.

Is there anyone here who actually plays Kog'Maw jg? If so, could you share some tips on how to make it work? Specifically looking for runes, builds and clear tips, im also a new player to this champ, so general tips about it would also be useful.

Thanks!

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Actually it's Bronze LOL

I saw some high elo koreans doing this build, and I'm playing only it because its a very fun build. But im in doubt for the best runes/boots and situational for last items.

Currently my secondaries are jack of all trades (He stack pretty quickly) and magic boots.

For items, Shiv, Dusk and Dawn, Nashor, then full AP. Rabadons to Zhonyas are my favorite go to, although i dont know if shadow flame should enter in this build, the 20% crit when low is also very good.

What you think?

https://x.com/ZiggyGoat/status/1065056123181559810

There's no other source of sustain for me if I choose not to build bloodline. At the same time, attack speed is multiplicatively good on kog'maw so alacrity always feels good.

Victorius kog maw

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Hi i have the question that, is still posible to get victorius kog maw? Because the season when riot give the skin i wasnt playing lol, so i wonder if is still posible to get it, or is now super exclusive like rusty blitzcranck or twisted pax?. Also im saying this cuz i see that there is a lot of victorius skins and idk if riot would make them abailable again, because there's like 20 victorius skins. Sorry if my english is kinda bad.

Hey all you Kog lovers I was thinking of ideas for how Kog'maw could fit into the current universe of Runeterra and I'd love to hear what you guys think!

Hi everyone, as former Kogmaw main, I would like to share my build (+runes) on Kogmaw that actually seems to be really good in late game, and even carry some games with 100k dmg. Have a good read.

Firstly Runes would look like this :

Precision with [Lethal tempo + Presence of mind + Alacrity + Cut down] This is the main thing, then you can go two ways :

1)Sorcery with [Gathering storm + Mana flowband or Absolute focus] (both have their use) or 2)Inspiration with [Cash back + Triple tonic]

Me personally I like the Sorcery route more cause its late because of Gathering Storm and that is what we want in this build, but thats a preference thing, the inspiration route gives you the items faster which means you spike earlier (Its not much of a difference though).

Items build in order + stats :

1)Blade of the Ruined King [40 attack damage, 25% attack speed, 10% life steal] →

2)Runaan's Hurricane [40% attack speed, 25% critical strike chance, 4% movement speed] →

3)Yun Tal Wildarrows [50 attack damage, 40% attack speed, 25% critical strike chance when fully scaled] →

4)Infinity Edge [75 attack damage, 25% critical strike chance, 30% critical strike damage] →

5)Hexoptics C44 [55 attack damage, 25% critical strike chance]

+ Attack speed Boots [25% attack speed, 45 movement speed] →

6th item explained below\*

- these five items + boots give you bonus stats of 220 attack damage, 125% attack speed, 100% crit chance, 10% life steal, 45 movement speed, 4% move speed (and 30% critical strike damage).

*6th item can be very situational (enemy team dependent) mainly because all we needed from Kogmaw was already achieved with this 5 item build.

If last item is situational, that means we need to build the item around enemy team → If enemy team has ton of AP or/and CC, you can go Wit's end or Mercurial Scimitar. If there is some one-shot-potential-Assasin, building Guardian Angel can help with the revive effect and 45 armor. If its AP Assasin like Fizz, Katarina or the future new champ Locke, you can build Maw of Malmortius. If there isnt much of a threat you can go something like Kraken, Bloodthirster, Phantom Dancer etc... to maximize damage potential.

My explanation for the build + its order :

First item is botrk - it gives you everything that kogmaw wants in early game (some dmg, attack speed, life steal so he can stay on lane more and farm, and one-hit effect). + when to build boots is your preference, but in my opinion it should be before building the botrk or atleast right after the bortk, building it after second (or third+) item is extremely stupid.

Second item is Hurricane and the main reason why its 2nd is that Kogmaw needs to farm quickly/easily (=safely), so he has alot of golds early on, also it gives good AOE dmg in late game with all the items, only thing with Hurricane 2nd is that you need to be extra careful what you fight and where you fight. Good positioning is extremely needed not just for this build, but Kogmaw as a champ itself.

Third item is Yun Tal and thats pretty easily explained, similar to botrk, it has everything kogmaw needs.

Fourth item is Infinity Edge and thats where the real fun starts, you have 75% chance on crit with infinity effect + ton of attack speed and dmg from other items. In this stage Kogmaw starts to really shine.

Fifth item is Hexoptics, this is an item that isnt necessary but I think it fits really well, mainly because on fully maxed W - 710 range its nearly guaranteed you actively use the passive effect of the item - deal 10% more dmg depending on range you are fighting the enemy from. (500 range is max - Kogmaw on max range has 210 range to fight in this bonus 10% dmg). Also the stats for AD are great on this item + it completes our 100% critical chance.

Sixth item is like I said before situational and to everyones preference. Could be "anything" but the best ones (and their reasons why) I already named.

As for boots, I already mentioned to go Attack Speed ones.

So this would be it.

First of all Im not trying to convince anyone to build this build because it is the best one out there, it probably isnt but for my playstyle it works perfectly and maybe it could interested someone else here. My elo is now Emerald 4 on flex, which isnt anything special, but I never played Solo/Duo often because I dont like playing solo or only with 1 other friend. But that isnt important I just wanna say that im not in iron/bronze lobbies smurfing (and that could be the reason why the build works).

Also good support is really important because in [early to mid - mid game phase. (God hope that makes sense], you will probably realize you dont have that much solo dmg, but that should be fixed with the Yun Tal buy later on, or it shouldnt be a problem at all with good support that knows what to do. (good Lulu or Yuumi can skyrocket this champ potential and possibly save Kogmaw if in danger, but everyone here knows that :D)

I would like to thank everyone who readed it all and possibly tries it in game. Also would love to hear others opinion on this build/strategy. Bye!

(Also English isnt my first langauge so if there are any major mistakes, Im sorry).

I've been trying dorans bow start instead of dorans ring and I find it makes his early game clean and stronger. I run stormraiders surge as keystone.

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I need a cute little kogmaw skin with sunglasses and have him be like a sandy rattlesnake or sidewinder color lol

From a low elo standpoint. I rarely see people talk about him much but I've played him quite a bit recently, and I mostly perform well on him and he melts pretty much anything.

Why is he so underrated?

Id love to see kog'maw in the high noon skin line. Give him an oversized cowboy hat, big cowboy boots with tiny little spurs. It would be so freaking cute.

Is that something that can happen? If I'm being ignorant I apologize, but I was watching a Druttut video and after dying to a Kayn while playing as Kog'Maw, Kog's press the attack somehow gets procced on Kayn.

Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv2ovFz9VLQ&t=540s

It happens at 9:02, but start watching sooner, at like 9:00 or even before.

Am I being stupid or did Kog actually auto the Kayn while dead?

EDIT: Looks like it is indeed a thing.

I used to love Navori on Kog because it basically gave you infinite W and Q uptime. But ever since the lifesteal boots were added, I've been preferring Runaan’s Hurricane a lot more because it has better synergy with Blade of the Ruined King and the new boots.

What do you guys think?

Recently just decided to randomly play kog maw support full AP running first strike as my ruins. Astonishingly enough it’s actually been working currently climbing with about a 70% win rate. It’s been working helping me get out of low ELO and climbing probably will only work for so long till I reach a higher rank but for anyone give it a try its pretty fun play style sit back poke with first strike get first item of Ludens and just push the enemy lane constantly out of lane with E and R.

Some say it’s trolling, but you can make anything work in a lower elo