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Kog'Maw
the Mouth of the Abyss

Kog'Maw

Passive · Icathian Surprise

On death, Kog'Maw counts down and then explodes, dealing massive true damage to all nearby enemies.

DamageDurabilityMagicDifficultyMobilityCC
Champion profile (Riot)
  • Damage8
  • Durability2
  • Magic5
  • Difficulty6
  • Mobility3
  • CC3
Counters by laneEach lane has counters + tips
Top

How to play as Kog'Maw

Top: hold CS, run TP or Ghost depending on the matchup.

How to beat Kog'Maw

Top: punish wave-states and ward river/jungle to dodge ganks.

Strong against

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Weak against

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Jungle

How to play as Kog'Maw

Jungle: track Scuttle, gank weak lanes, scale to objectives.

How to beat Kog'Maw

Jungle: ward objectives, never walk blind into brush.

Strong against

No data yet

Weak against

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Mid

How to play as Kog'Maw

Mid: shove wave fast and roam to side lanes.

How to beat Kog'Maw

Mid: watch for roams and save Flash for the next gank.

ADC
Primary

How to play as Kog'Maw

ADC: kite the frontline, hit the closest tank then the carries.

How to beat Kog'Maw

ADC: stay behind minions and focus the enemy ADC in fights.

Support

How to play as Kog'Maw

Support: keep vision + peel for ADC, build Locket Enchant + Knight's Vow.

How to beat Kog'Maw

Support: dodge hooks/engages, buy Mikael's into heavy CC.

Strong against

No data yet

Weak against

No data yet

Abilities

Icathian Surprise

PC
Passive

Innate: Upon taking death, Kog'Maw enters a zombie state for 4 seconds, becoming ghosted and gaining 10% bonus movement speed that increases up to 50% over the duration. At the end of the duration, he explodes to deal 140 to 650% true damage to nearby enemies.

While under this state, Kog'Maw becomes invulnerability, untargetable, and cc-immune, but is also rendered unable to declare basic attacks, cast abilities, use summoner spells, and activate items.

Caustic Spittle

PC
Q

Passive: Kog'Maw gains bonus attack speed.

Active: Kog'Maw ejects a wad of spittle in the target direction that deals magic damage to the first enemy hit and reduces their armor and magic resistance for 4 seconds.

Cooldown7Range1200

Bio-Arcane Barrage

PC
W

Active: Kog'Maw empowers his basic attacks for the next 8 seconds to gain bonus attack range and deal bonus magic damage on-hit, capped at 100 against minion and monster.

Cooldown17

Void Ooze

PC
E

Active: Kog'Maw spews a gob of ooze in the target direction that deals magic damage to enemies hit.

A field of ooze is created in its wake for 4 seconds, slow enemies every 0.25 seconds.

Cooldown12Range1360

Living Artillery

PC
Ultimate

Active: Kog'Maw spits a globule of acid into the air that drops to the target location after 0.6 seconds, granting sight of the area before dealing magic damage to enemies hit and standard sight them for 2 seconds. Living Artillery's damage is increased by type=target's missing health%, or instead by 100% if the target is below 40% maximum health.

Kog'Maw then gains a stack of Living Artillery for 8 seconds, refreshing on subsequent casts and stacking up to 9 times.

Living Artillery: For each stack, Living Artillery's mana cost is increased by 40.

Cooldown2 to 1