Why NO ONE Plays: Kog'Maw (League of Legends) 

otp Kog'maw here. I loved your video and your take on kog´s position in the game. Let´s just hope this adorable void slug gets the love that he deserves

"only one to have a suicide passive" Sion- "am i a joke to you"

I main kog and can agree, but this why i play him also. Just the playstyle is so strong if ur good at it

I will forever be a Kog’Maw main. This little slime monster is my favorite champ and there is nothing anyone can do to make me stop playing him.

If Kog E was a grounding effect like Singed/Cassio W, he would feel so much better in the face of League's recent mobility creep

why does no one play kog maw: he is distilled adc and adc is already frustrating enough

I hate his passive, it feels so useless dying to even have one in the first place To take it even further it isnt really impactful, fun or creates a real thread Like Sion does Atleast I can have some fun with AP Kog on the Howling Abyss :))

With this episode. You explained why I quit league.

As a Yuumi main who plays with Kindred and Kog'Maw mains as steady teammates... it's honestly sad how Riot thrived so much by turning League's solo queue into a former, individualistic shadow of itself.

Make his E so that Kog speeds up while running on the slime and make his passive have the option of doing a “dash” where he hurls himself in a direction and then explodes, that way you can use him as a rocket after he’s dead and have a better chance of actually landing.

playing as a dps champ in a game where everyone 1shots must feel bad, the power creep in s11 is hilarious

this feels so odd but explains a lot. i main kog'maw, i started around 2013 and stopped the same year. i picked it up this year again. so its not as much of a team game anymore and more who can do their most on their own? idk it feels like the LoL game world has changed a lot from what i remember i guess

"it turns kog maw into a living time bomb upon death" ...

Thing about kog maw for me is that his passive literally makes 0 SENSE for a adc and should really in my opinion be completely changed to something else cause it doesn’t even feel like he has a passive

This takes me back to the early days when lategame kog with runnans could melt multiple incoming tanks untouched without even having to kite. Those were the days

I’m watching this video because I am a level 40 and have never seen this champion...

I think Kog needs a visual update more than a rework, together with Cho'Gath, among several other champions. Both their models are so cartoonish and hilarious.

I'm addicted to this series but I've got homework. Please stop making good content my future depends on it

what i dont get is why his in game model is so different to his lil art screen thing. The art thing hes grey and menacing looking but the actual model he looks like a fukn cartoon where hes white and blue and pink

Really interesting stuff! I originally watched you for maple content and its nice to see you doing a variety of videos! I personally enjoy watching these videos doing discussions on champions and such, maybe you could even do more discussing previous season's meta and such. On a different note, Kog'Maw recently received a buff to his AP ratios so it definitely helps his case on being a niche counter-pick in pro play to champions like Azir that struggle with matching his long range of spells.

My second match with Kog Maw with a good friend of mine as my support I managed to get a penta and 2 quadra kills... It's an insanely fun champ if you have good teammates

Love these videos! Last time I watched the Udyr one and then straight after played an Udyr game xD I have him as mastery 5 so I quite enjoy that champ. Now I feel like playing Kog! He got a buff this patch, apparently he's good as APC now

If his E was also a speed for kog it would be a game changer

I could hardly believe it when I heard Danganronpa music in the intro.

Unless he'll be buffed with "Grounding" on his E, he'll be unplayed. He is just an XP/Gold source for the assasins. Picking him, you're basically inviting enemy to keep ganking you, and you have to hope your support will be defending you if he can at all.

Miss my old protect Kogmaw games as Chogath with a friend. We'd both be Jurassic skins and I would just stand on him so people would have a hard time clicking on him while silencing/knockup/eat anyone that would go near him. lol

Got into League recently, Kog Maw was the first character I bought. He looks like my dog I love playing him

this is pretty accurate to why i have a hard time getting into kog maw. there was a point where i was really interested but playing just felt bad. its kinda sad in a way that a 5 v 5 team game isn't actually about winning as a 5 man team but rather just assuming the worst and trying to carry yourself but its also not really unjustified. so like ... whats a boi to do? want to play him, he's interesting, too much effort though.

Kogmaw need have bones mechanic for survival and duel in corrent meta of 200 years of game design. Like Ground effect on his E and more useful passive (or get shield or no extra mana cost on ult) Sadly Rito too stupid for this and Just nerfed him

Good content. These videos deserve more attention

Really solid video, should definitely have more views

NOW EVERYONE IS PLAYING KOG'MAW

If I could change Kog'Maw but keep his identity, I would create him as a void marksman who not only is a high DPS tank shredder, but his E can be a blinding acidic cone attack that reduces vision of enemies for 2s (like Graves or Quinn). Some kind of defense that doesnt affect damage directly, but more a counteroffensive ability. It doesnt have to be this, but something that gives him that feeling of a dangerous void creature. His passive could be the only thing that needs a change. Again, if we want to keep him as a high damage but vulnerable marksman, Kog'Maw passive can be an acid-empowered attack every 3 autos that scales with levels or items.

Kogmaw ooze ball should ground enemies id be willing to give up power somewhere in his kit to make that happen.

Just like sona she fully embraces the enchanter role where she gives buffs to heals sheilds cc and movement speed for allies but in exchange your team needs to protect her to get that buffs i can say shes the perfect example for the enchanter role in terms of team fight and in leagye there are a lot if team fights

That danganronpa background music tho

Really strange to hear you undersell Kow'Maw's rework this hard. He was so utterly broken beyond belief, IT WAS REVERTED. He was broken as hell on the botlane, nerfed into the ground, until people realized Bloodrazor made him a insane jungler. Even when nerfed out of the botlane, he found a way to be dominant. Rework Kog'Maw is one of the most broken things Riot ever released, and his power back in those days is HEAVILY understated in this video.

This is why I like aram, it forces me to play different champs that I do like but just don't think I can take into rank.

i love how you take step back set your point of view and state 'this is how adc should be ' 10/10 vid greate one i kog main so love to see this

I'm a Kog'Maw main and I really liked this video, i find it to be very accurate. I usually play on bot lane and whenever I play with a support player that I know and can communicate with, he's very powerful and can win team fights in seconds even when outnumbered in late-game, but when I play with randoms it's often much harder to do well, especially with the type of "support" that just charges in like they're playing a juggernaut trying to win the bot lane by themselves, getting both of us killed. I feel like many players think this is a single player game or sth.

Can I have a link for the Neeko vid if it's still up? I know it was problematic but I wanna watch. :x

Yall remember the first adc update where they made all the adcs different and Kog became this unstoppable god thanks to that w change? I miss that so much

It's pretty hilarious, zyra's old passive should be on cogma

Former OTP I made Bloodrazor work very well in the jg with him and his former 5.0 attk speed cap. I never had so much fun with a champ before then switched off to Lethal Tempo Kayle before rework.

kog was one of the first champs i played way back in season 3. good times

I LOVE THE MAWWW ❤️

I started playing in 2021, and I decided to try playing ADC after being bad with Naut and Moakai in the top lane. I picked up Kog'Maw as my first ever ADC, because he was adorable and I liked his ult. However, at this point in my time playing the game I realized it's very much not a team game unless you have 4 other people, and Kog'Maw does not do well in that environment, at least not as an ADC. Fast forward until recently and I found out about AP Kog'Maw. Now I get to play my favorite champ design wise and not feel like shit doing it. Kog'Maw is adorable, nobody can change my mind, and I will spit and barf on my enemies until they die, I die, or both.

i love kog'maw and when he goes full ballistic ounce fed, but yeah it's all about the team when you are playing him. You still need to be good with him, but if your team doesn't support kog you will never get the chance to go full ballistic. I would change his ult thought i never or rarely use it and i think an ult that helps with his movement to get out of bad situations with a jump/dash or mouvement speed would help him better fit with this new lol. i would totally dig if his ult was him rolling in a ball gaining a speed boost and laying a trail behind him like his E.

Solution: go swifties and energized on kog for a quick little throw up bug

One of my favorite champions to play alongside Vel'Koz.

i miss the brief kogmaw rework where his w would double his attack speed and allow for a 5.0 attack speed cap. i'd love for them to bring it back

Evelynn is in a similar spot: Shes hyperspeciallized as an assasin. She sucks in seiges, vs tanks/bruisers, and cant dps, but is insanely effective at getting in, oneshotting a target, and escaping. Shes extremely reliant on her teammates to take objectives, clear vision, and push waves but in return has an insanely strong oneshot combo from stealth.

I wish more team oriented design was the goal. I remember learning how to ADC on Koggy and I still love him, even though I don't play anymore. And it's so sad that on hit damage design always falls behind to burst. Crits in general I think aren't good game design for pvp, especially in a game like LoL. All that said... KEEP COMING! NOT FULL!

5:57 OOF When you main Kog/Skarner in 2012-14 and come back almost a decade later and the new champion you want to try is Neeko :'D.

I think aphelios just got his 38th nerf, saw it in apheliosmains

Este personaje sigue siendo mi adc favorito, con el buff en 11.5 está imparable, pero necesitas mucho peel cosa que nadie en Elo bajo sabe hacer, y la pasiva está muy desactualizada para el meta actual, pero me encanta entrar en modo metralleta y derretir enemigos

I remember a while ago, kogmaw was on free to play so I tried him out. I pretty much played him the entire week, and after I bought him to continue playing(even tho i don't play him much now). I was playing him top, and his poke early game was disgusting, the only problem being mana and bad trades. I was really bad when I played back then tho so, maybe its not as bad now.

as an average kog enjoyer im just checkin this video now that the 13.10 guinsoos is out

BoRK nerfs also hit kogmaw really hard. It was the perfect first item choice followed by guinsoo, but now he is basically forced to go mythical crit item

Holy shit, I completely forgot about Zyra's old passive.

i'm trying to figure out other champs to play since I'm currently a heimer main and struggling to branch out. the heavy damage but slowness and sensitivity reminds me of heimer, so I hope kog'ma will become a second champ for me

I heard the voice and i was like is this the maplestory guy

What an interesting realm private server!

i main kog'maw adc and have a 58% winrate. he is super-easy to play as long as you have good positioning.

So I used to main Kog'maw prior to the Marksman reworks. He's honestly the reason I first started playing League. But since the rework I haven't been comfortable with him. He used to be an artillery mage and carry hybrid, but the ultimate damage is a lot weaker against full health targets and healing is so much easier than it used to be. For comparison, 4.14 Kog'maw vs current Kog'maw at level 6 with 73 bonus AD (Krakenslayer + Doran's Blade + 1 Adaptive Force Rune). Against a full health target Old Kog does ~33% more, while against a 40% health target new Kog does 225% more. The break point is at about 16% missing health. At level 18 with 200 bonus AD the comparison is 35% more for old Kog at full and 221% more for new Kog at 40%. With the break point shifting only slight to 16.25% missing health. Really this is just me trying to make mathematical sense of my feelings. I love Kog'maw's ultimate to soften up targets before a full engage and as a scouting tool. But this version has its power put into stealing kills, which isn't what I find fun.

At this point he needs to get the ability to roll around like he does in the recall of his battlecast skin It would be hella funny and would give him some mobility that for some reason every champion has now

3:16 that is the passive of gwen and he said it 10 months early xD

Well i pick him exactly to carry all the dead allies and its working most of the time.

Tbh coming from a kog main I don’t like kog adc without an enchanter and even then going mid, ap atk spd build will give you more up time on w and gives you the ability to get Zhonyas and seraphs mana shield and many ap items with health

Pog'Maw

This aged well

I think he needs an actual passive, as he is if you don't die he has no passive. And I've never killed anything with his passive not even minions die to it, instead of going out with a bang it feels as though he goes out with a whimper.

Kog'maw is the sweetest most adorable baby

I would find it pretty cool if he could actually eat people's remains after melting them. Also, if Riot ever finds a way to make artillery mages work in the current meta he would be better. Making inner towers stronger so seige and splitpush power is more appreciated, perhaps?

I find it funny that lol has gone from you can carry alone to team game more but their champions gone to every champion for themselves xD

I think they should add a grounded effect to his e.

2 years have passed, and is the same... main kog here, everyone get mad with me for that, "why you don't use something more strong/better"

oh my God that's Beautiful Lie in the backround, great taste!

I think a lot of the reasoning behind kogmas playrate is sort of applicable to Twitch. Twitch is more about stealth and whatnot, but He's extremely fragile with one of the lowest health and mana stats, yet has insane damage output and can 1v9 in their own. But they take time to get going.

you say in other vid about split/duo dmg being a problem well kog has that as well. increase base range by 50 to 550, needs lower cd on Q,W to always keep effects active pass: 100% ms, ignore terrain, 100*lv true dmg(doesn't show size so 550 radius/ less dmg from center), on death leaks ooze around self & leaves trail that slows(=E), reduces enemy champ dmg(=E), lowers armor an mr(=Q) and deals %hp(=W) Q: add flat stacking resistance lowering amount to passive portion, act % resistance lower 20/25/30/35/40+1% per 100 ap, act have +100% ap instead of 70%. W: as it is could make it not interact like teemo, just take mana when need extra range, could allow +1/2/3/4/5* bonus range pass base bonus range at reducing 50% dmg for more mana. enemies within range = to bonus range from hit box gain 5/10/15/20/25%(+1per 100 ap) omni-vamp. act + 1/2/3/4/5%(+1 per 100 ap) range to aa an abilities, can hit multiple targets +1/2/3/4/5(+ 1 per 100 AP), multiple projectiles can hit same target E: after act is toggled on draining mana but giving him bonus ms an leaving trail (no dmg just slow)maybe also covers self w/ it so take reduced dmg also they deal reduced dmg. +100% AP instead of 50% R: xerath ult range(so just add range)

I liked just for the Pyke rant XD

Maw so hungry!!!

I was just talking about this the other day. Humans take the path of least resistance. Why rely on teamwork and coordination when you have all the tools you need on a single champion...

Watching this when I'm eating is not a good idea :'(

Kog will forever be my favorite adc

Kog’maw is honestly really fun!

The main problem with Kog'maw is not having a passive.

I am not gonna say you are wrong, but I play adc build kog'maw top. Kraken slayer. Kog dosen't rely on others. His kit does not have good disengagement. If a champ jumps on kog then it's weather or not you can kill them first. He is venerable but high damage. He never relies on others and he is quick in his damage. The issue stems from his inability to disengage or engage. If you wait for the enemy to mess up, just once, then you slow them and open fire. But when you are playing against a pantheon or a rengar then they just close the distance. 9 times out dps them. But you die faster cause of low resistance and health.

i've been main kogmaw for more than 1 year now and i agree with you, kog is one of the most utopian adc ( i've been 100th kogmaw eune/1k global at some point). Imo he is one of the best adc in the game, i absolutly love to play him ( i only miss 2 skins on him). But yeah, biggest problem playing kogmaw, is that your whole team has to play around you, as long everyone protects you and get the targets right, you melt the whole team in 5seconds with no problems. But again, a bad support WILL ruin your game, you can play with any supp, doesn't have to be lulu or an enchanter as long they know their role. Personally i like to play with tanks as some can stun and take the target away from me, and i can melt enemy bot. The biggest problem with kog is the items, he is absolutly depent on items, if the items are nerfed, kog is shit, if items are strong, so is kog.

"Only champion with a suicide attack" *Sion has left the chat*

Yo the comment about how it's always something else bringing Kog'Maw into the spotlight was so fucking based. I've been saying that for a while now, expecially when Muramana had it's time in the spotlight for adc's. Besides being a god at positioning and kiting (cough Any ADC cough) there's nothing to actually express your skills with Kog'Maw. Unless you count his ult i guess.

My main complaint about Kog'Maw is that his entire lore is focused around eating everything, yet his gameplay revolves around vomiting, not eating. I think it would be neat if he could consume low-health (or recently-killed) minions and champions, which would give him temporary stacks that would buff his attack potency and power of his self-destruct. This would double down on his role as a walking siege weapon, allowing him to gather power while pushing a lane or engaging in a teamfight, encouraging his team to keep shoving and keep him protected while encouraging enemies to take him down, but also punishing them if they do so incautiously.

So as far as the suicide passive.... we just gonna ignore sion or?

I love kog hes the only carry i can play and i came from dota so ialways wondered why i couldnt win with kog when i had a fast team and these opened my eyes its crazy how these champ would be broken in dota but is not great in league

Kog'Maw is only BPS champion - burst at second.

1:56 HAHAHAAHAHHAHAAHHAA

I think the disclaimer is kinda unnecessary cuz everytime i see one of these i wanna play the champion to see whether or not im good with them. Great vids, helping me understand league more

I know this video came out when aphelios was strong but even at his strongest aphelios was always like Kog’maw in that he was High Damage, High Range (with Calibrum), low mobility, low defenses. His main issue was that his damage numbers were so high it made up for his weakness, similar to how Kog’maw sees play when his numbers are too good. Now that Aphelios has been nerfed, he and Kog’maw occupy the same space as low play and win rate champions with insane upper limits if played right. Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised to see a “Why No One Plays Aphelios” given more time

I love playing Kog'Maw, but mostly as an artillery mage over a Marksman - looking at the other videos on this list.. Skarner, Cho'Gath, Kog'Maw, Vel'Koz, Anivia, Taliyah, Xayah, Neeko are all champions I enjoy playing, a lot of them I picked up being a veteran League player (Anivia was my first 6300 IP champion lol). I do think that the Q and R feel underwhelming for an ADC, while Q and W feel underwhelming for an artillery mage. Personally I'd want a new Q, and slightly change W - something like doing some additional upfront damage on the first auto-attack while activating W. I'd probably want to change how the range scales on his ult, bit more range on the earlier ranks go a long way. Honestly, maybe even work the shred of armor/mr into a passive instead (definitely like Kayle's old passive, as a stacking debuff), maybe keep his death passive, but in addition if he hits a target with his death passive, they'll be heavily slowed and receive full stacks. Playing more into the "melt your enemies down with many hits, punish the opponent if they can't disengage off of killing him efficiently"

Vars: Says Kog'maw is bad. Me: Gets destroyed by a 23/2/9 Kog