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Kog'Maw is broken

Yianiy·2/14/2016, 4:16:30 PM·1 votes·2,025 views

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Summary

Our team was ahead as hell, at least more than 2 times their kills, more turrets, more dragons, more overall gold, spread around LeBlanc, Lee, Kali, and Mundo. The enemy team managed to get 8 turrets within 3 minutes, because of Kog'Maw. Look at Kog'Maw's score. As soon as he bought rageblade, he had the power to 1v1 Kali and push down inner, outer, and inhibitor turrets, while the rest of the team got mid outer, inner, and inhibitor turrets. It came down to defending the base, and "Protect the ADCarry" was the theme here. Once everyone was dead, except the ADCs, Kog'Maw single handedly with his 2/7, 1v1ed Kalista. He kept up with farm, and eventually, he had more gold than most people on our team, and the same gold as everyone else except Blitzcrank on his team.

Conclusion

Kog'Maw or Rageblade needs a nerf/change. This is completely insane as a single champion has pushing power like no other, only requiring 1 item to be able to be the split in the game. When he is threatened, he will hide behind the tanks, doing massive damage. I believe this an unhealthy playstyle and goes against Riot's beliefs. According to detailed league information sites, including lolking and champion.gg, Kog'Maw has an average of 54.4% win rate, with Udyr at the top standing at 55.5%.

5 Comments

GEMS GEMS GEMS2/14/2016, 4:28:12 PM2 votes

Kog'Maw - 1 Mundo - 0

Broken champion confirmed.

Erockandroll2/14/2016, 4:37:08 PM1 votes

fewest kills, fewest kill participation on his team. highest deaths.

how is that a sign that he's broken?

Cherysse2/14/2016, 4:38:29 PM1 votes

Kalista build sucks, thats why he killed her... stop crying.

Yosuke Apperu2/14/2016, 5:32:19 PM1 votes

I'm pretty sure Riot wanted kogmaw to be the definition of a glass cannon.. if his team can protect him then they're doing what they're supposed to do.. meanwhile you have devourer rageblade (insert tank items here) xin zhao.. xin is way more unfair to fight imo.. lol

Lost R2/14/2016, 6:13:24 PM1 votes

Well there's your problem.

Mundo is the only tank on your team, meanwhile everyone else would snap in half from a light breeze. On top of that, you have no hard crowd control at all. Hell, you barely have SOFT crowd control. LeBlanc is really the only one who might stand a chance, next to Teemo. Teemo could blind him, rendering him inert, meanwhile LeBlanc jumps in to nuke him down.

EDIT: Wait a minute! Kog'Maw only has two kills and was at least present for nine others out of twenty one. Meanwhile the median for the rest of the team was fourteen, meaning Kog'Maw was UNDERPERFORMING for the average.

By the way, Kog'Maw is REALLY good at clearing lanes, but when it comes to smashing turrets he underperforms in that as well. Since he's focused around hit effects and magic damage, his attack damage tends to be very low as well, and bumping his attack speed to 5.0 barely helps. Yeah, 60-70 damage five times a second seems quite fast, but compare it to someone like Tristana, who could grenade the tower for more than a third of its health with a full salvo in a shorter amount of time, or at least chunk it enough and back the hell off once the enemy team comes to stop her. She can also jump to safety, compared to Kog'Maw who has a slight slow and that's it; he has to walk.

By the way, whatever happened to the idea that after the rework, Kog'Maw was below trash tier/autoreport? Make up your damn minds, community!