How The Fuck Was AP Kog'Maw Unhealthy?

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+ + + 1800 range + low cooldown is why. Literally one blind skillshot hitting their carry before a fight or during a siege put them to the point where they had to recall or go lifesteal up or something. And generally he'd have enough mana to spam enough to land an ult on something.

The raw damage itself wasn't that big a deal, but adding the range and spammability is what created the problem. It's the same reason Nidalee's spears got a pretty good hit to their max damage, too. Landing one really long range, low cooldown ability shouldn't render a team unable to fight or defend a tower.

As an AP Kog fan:

By a certain point his combination of waveclear + range + strength super stalled the game. This could be best tweaked imo by toning down or changing E entirely, so we can emphasize the ult again. Gut E base/make it a dot/ new skill. Would also reduce the oddity of "his utility carpet spell chunked me and the whole wave..?" Game as a whole underrates waveclear and there's too much of it anyways.

He was a dps champ AND had the greatest ranges and strong poke. It felt dreadfull to play against if your team didn't have sufficient dive to close the game out.

Kog also got semi tanky from his build.

He had very weird numbers where pen was his best stat and he could go tanky ap rather than glass AP and still dominant the late game. This could easily be fixed too (though combining that fix with an ult with enough base dmg for AD Kog who likes attack speed centric builds would be tricky; but how about we go crazy with the ratio's AD & AP, lower the base and make gunblade Kog a thing)

Other than that though (tanky build and the huge range waveclear) nothing IMO. Both can be tweaked. In fact there are a fair number of champions in this game whose primary "Riot endorsed" design is actually just as toxic or worse IMO

I just want the real artillery 'R' back

His ult with ludens late game hurt like hell if you werent a tank