League's most adorable immobile tank-busting artillery platform

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To say that Koggy is a bit underwhelming right now would be an understatement.

He is, without question, a niche champion. Problem is, he's having trouble doing his job on account of him getting heavy-handed nerfs after he did okay in an LCS game where he was taken in a 2v1 lane in order to get him as fed as possible. That's a pretty common occurrence, sadly. Koggy getting ham-fisted nerfs because of play in a skill level that 99.99% of the game's user-base couldn't ever hope to match.

His niche as a long-range auto attacker is getting trampled by Trist and Jinx. He deals more damage late game, sure, but because they ramp up so much faster while ALSO being much safer it's difficult to justify a Koggy pick. The fact that Dragon is such an important early objective isn't helping matters, either.

So anyway! I think the best thing Riot could do for Koggy is to focus his character a bit. Right now he's an immobile tank-busting artillery platform that's also a long-range machine gun sometimes. Personally, I think the best route to take would be to cut out the 'long-range machine gun' portion since the range on Koggy's W offers a whole bunch of power without gameplay. It would be the easiest thing to cut while still maintaining the most fun parts of Koggy's identity, it would crush the portion of his kit that nets him nerfs from high-level play while at the same time opening up a HUGE amount of kit power.

To that end, I want to check to see what Koggy players feel the most fun part of Koggy's identity is. What portions of his character do you find most appealing, aside from obvious things like how adorable the Void Puppy is?

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Toru Itai1 votes

:| i like him as an AP marksman with runnans and shit.

Rebonack1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Toru Itai,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=GnPArXsN,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2015-01-08T16:52:08.182+0000)

:| i like him as an AP marksman with runnans and shit.

Nashor/Lich/Runnan's/ect?

That would probably fall under 'Tank-buster' since you're focusing on his OnHit damage.

I had OnHit/AP on my last poll, it wasn't nearly as popular as Athenes/AA AP or Trinity ADC. Fell behind BotRK/Whisper tank-stomper, too.

Regardless! If anyone wanted to explain why they voted for what they did, that would be great. My goal here is to learn what the Koggles player-base likes most about him, what they see as his defining characteristic.

Personally, I went with Koggy's Tank Buster aspect. While lobbing Ults is a ton of fun, Koggy's ability to melt through targets regardless of how beefy they are is a really satisfying aspect of his character. Like it says in his lore, Koggy ate his way through whatever obstacle was placed in his path like an extra-lethal Very Hungry Caterpillar.

disregardable1 votes

It's not an adorable void puppy.

It's disgusting. Look at its butterfly skin.

Rebonack1 votes

[{quoted}](name=The AFK Farmer,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=GnPArXsN,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2015-01-08T17:03:20.295+0000)

It's not an adorable void puppy.

It's disgusting. Look at its butterfly skin.

I run the Reindeer Skin.

Totally looks like a Void Puppy to me. All fuzzy and everything.

disregardable1 votes

It pukes at people to attack them...

Rebonack1 votes

[{quoted}](name=The AFK Farmer,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=GnPArXsN,comment-id=000100000000,timestamp=2015-01-08T17:10:19.251+0000)

It pukes at people to attack them...

I think we're getting a little off-topic here...

Some talk about why particular aspects of Koggy's character are favored would be really nice. Right now I'm trying to figure out if the votes for 'long range machine gun' are honest or just G&B being contrary, because no one voted for the standard ADC build in my last poll, which is the build that works best for long-range machine gunning.

For those that did vote for the machine-gun option, why? Doesn't Trist (or even Harvey Bird-Man) do the long range auto-attack thing better? Or at least far more safely?

disregardable1 votes

Harvey Bird-Man

...Swain?

SmokingPuffin1 votes

Kog'maw is fun because he's a turret. When I pick him I want world destroying face melting power from a mile away.

Kog'maw is kinda weak now because tanks are pretty meh and assassins are pretty zomg. I don't think he needs any changes, just needs the game to balance out in other areas.

I don't agree that Jinx and Tristana are problems for Kog. Kog loves it when Tristana is good because he is spectactular against her. Jinx wins that lane, but she doesn't really scale that well with items because her AS stat is atrocious. I think Kog's niche as the best late game turret is not threatened.

Rebonack1 votes

Kog'maw is fun because he's a turret. When I pick him I want world destroying face melting power from a mile away.

Thank you, Puffin. I'm really glad you provided some context for your thoughts on Koggy. Would you consider yourself a Kog'Maw main, or is this just your thought on the matter as a Ranked player in general?

And for the record, Trist and Jinx are both really popular right now with a 13% and a 24% pick-rate, respectively. Kog is down at 1.3%.

...Swain?

Azir

Rebonack1 votes

BUMP because I really want to know what people find most fun about Kog?

A few more replies would be great.

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