Kog Essential Items changes. TF rush? Why? is it viable?

Tryce Maxwell··1 votes·636 views

So with Kog's revert, it's no surprise his recommended items were changed too. Items like rage blade and wit's end (even though it was never a recommended at all was still powerful rush).

Riot's got Trinity force, along with phage as a must buy early item and I'm thinking to myself "why would you ever want to build this?" Since his R is only an execute and not a general damage skill, (like corki's ult) you aren't going to be keen to spam it, unless desperately trying to pop that pesky lee sin who got away. This points your W (a fair thing for a sheen proc, but that's just one), you can hold out and use Q to get a second one, but waiting on your E to proc may take too long honestly. There's nothing really in his kit that would encourage you to build it, especially first.

What do you guys think? I was climbing with kog up till this point so I feel like I know him fairly well, and I did even before rework (but didn't play him much). What should he be rushing? What works the best as a core?

6 Comments

Vallalan1 votes

trinity force is by far the best first item on kog maw now.

the sheen proc is the main thing, but the phage passive helps with his immobility. new trinity also gives a lot of attack speed which is all kog needs. he gets free dmg on his w. 6% max health per auto is nothing to sneeze at.

basically you pop W, free sheen proc. you wait a second. use E or Q, another sheen proc. wait another second or so and use the other spell, sheen proc. on top of your already good damage from W, you now just get really really good burst trading.

he basically becomes really strong at trinity. you can weave in ults after using your rotation of spells or even use it once in a short trade if you aren't going all in just to proc sheen. it only costs 50 mana if you use it once.

basically you can keep getting sheen procs with his ult in an all in, and his all becomes filthy with trinity.

trinity bork is so good. just try it and you will see why.

Chamuel851 votes

Do you do sheen or phage first? My guess is Phage?

MunchCrunchLunch1 votes

yeah phage first. for the hp and ad. and its passive

Vallalan1 votes

usually phage, but you can go sheen if you plan to scrap early. phage helps you survive lane a bit more with some tanky stats and some ad to help early on. If you think you can fight early though (which isn't always the case as kog is weaker ish early) then sheen can be a good buy. just depends on if you plan to fight or just farm it out. sheen is best utilized post 6 though.

Otter Fire1 votes

No longer crits, Kog'Maw's q provides a nice auto attack reset, gives him stats that he can use, sheen, rage to chase or kite, bonus movement speed. Kog'Maw really hasn't changed too much after the rework although I would recommend maxing q first then w because q has that bonus attack speed buff and the q active does good damage. If you decide to jungle Kog'Maw don't go trinity till after you get life steal (ie Bloodraizor into BotRK into Runaan's or Trinity, depends on how often teamfights break out).

Dracocrash1 votes

If you are snowballing rush ghost blade, not even joking.

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