Kog Maw lost his identity with this patch Please riot fix him
Kog maw History
So what did kog maw do before this patch. Anyone remember s4 fotm kog maw. Yeah i do. Wanna know what happened to that kog maw to nerf him. He had lower base damage but KEPT HIS LATE GAME POWER. Alright now we know kogs patch history with a small nerf to ap kog in the middle of that. Kog before his gutting had THE HIGHEST ADC DAMAGE IN THE GAME. Ight he did about 28-30k damage most of it ad but about 25% of this was ap damage. Now he lost 5-7k of his average damage per game.
Kog maws game state
Alright not so bad but is he still good late game. NO HE FALLS OF LATE GAME. Yes kog maw the hypercarry falls of. He power spikes at rage blade dips below in power once he gets his 4th-5th item spikes and then falls off to trash. He also has the lowest play rate and the lowest win rate of any adc. This means the dedicated players who gave a shit about kog maw cant play him. They lost a champion they enjoyed FOR NO REASON.
Kog was not brokenly op before he was at a 50% winrate spiking up 2% or lowering 2% but his mains kept a solid winrate. To recap kog was balanced he got gutted less dam less winrate and no late game. Now what have kog have been doing on this patch. Well old kog would be enjoying the tri force the rage blade hurricane some crit items who knows. He would have liked this patch. Speaking about his item builds they are trash what do you build after rage blade. Nobody knows riot does not know no challenger players want to play a champion like kog.
Now lets talk about kiting. Every adc with mobility is designed to kite kalista graves lucian cait tris sivir jinx ect. Kog cant do what every other adc can. Hes like the opposite of kalista instead of dashing around he stands still while some assassin mage tank kills his squishy ass. Its hard to peel a champion who cant move without losing 3/4 of his dps. 1/4 of kog maws dps is not that impressive. To make this worse riot nerfed kogs w he gets more percent damage with a fully stacked rage blade and now he does not even have ad scaling on his percent w..
Now some people might argue kog is op with peel. But kog cant move hes stuck still aaing In order to peel kog you would need cc shields because people will reach kog disables and communication. Trust me you will not get this is solo q. Even then you should not need 4 people to babysit a whining kog you would be better off building a team comb around yas and mf then that.
Now we got to ap kog......
Yuck his r is gutted for ap kog the cd the mana cost its just trash. The w is a buff but before when kog hit 6 he could cs poke do a bunch of stuff. Now he cant cs with his r its cd and mana are to dam high. Poke please it does no damage unless they are half health. Kiting maybe you wont have 5.0 as so it might be possible. But ap kog is so bad nobody plays it. Only ad kog bot lane.
Kog maw got olafed for no reason he was not stomping games he was not broken he was the definition of balanced his early game was worse then vayne his late game was better in team fights worse 1v1 good kogs could get fed bad kogs would fall behind and be useless because they dont do percent true damage. TLDR: Kog win rate dropped kog damage dropped kog build trash kog cant kite ap kog gutted help kog rip kog Tldr 2: Why does a hyper carry fall off. Please riot fix kog i love this champion and i want to enjoy him and not be raged at when i pick him. For the 1% do it i hope this thread does not get buried by the memes Yes i do main kog i have 340+ games with him and enjoyed the champion a lot
after Guinsoo's feels the best for me as that % current health damage really racks up quickly with the W active.
seems like a natural fit to Kog's new kit as well but I haven't been able to test this as much as I would like to. I also really dislike
because you should not be in a position to hit 3 targets as the most immobile of carries.