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Vapora Dark In-Depth ADC Kog'Maw Season 10

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Why people don't play AP Kog'Maw? Idk maybe like Kayle build or smth? Kog'Maw has AP scaling on his abilities so why not?

(625) |

AP Kog'Maw has seen bouts of play on mid lane, but bot lane people want DPS. is a viable item on ADC Kog'Maw, but otherwise you want to focus on DPS over poke, which is what AP mostly provides.

So it was my first game with him vs ezreal and janna.. gad damm imdont get how to win vs them they just poke you down and thats it i think they are not a low threat maybe a meadium or something. Just saying

is it bad if i start with ? Targon's Brace can help with the bad early game as well.

(625) |

isn't good on ADCs anymore.

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Didn't it get nerfed by 50% for ranged champions? I think that's the reason why it's lost favor among ADCs.

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It was that coupled with the removal of the shield passive, one or the other might have kept it as a fine choice on ADCs but both was too much.

ranged champions? that includes thresh!!!! you mean i cant get it on my thresh either? that item is so good on him

(625) |

You can still get it on , it's just not as good on him as before, but it's still better than Coin.

(2) |

I'm almost positive this includes Thresh. It was a huge nerf to a bunch of champions. It was a necessity though because it became a go-to item for almost anyone in the bot lane.

What's the reason for having press the attack instead of lethal tempo? I can see that you can proc it more consistently, but being able to get 3.3 AS in a late game teamfight does so much more for him imo

(625) |

was stronger than up until last patch. That being said, is now stronger than both of them and I've switched my guide to that.

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The sad moment, when you read Vapora's Guide to Koggy; he pick Kog' only if he has Lulu support...

(...but you a Kog'maw possessed, hungry witch, and you choose him mostly always, if you can. 'cuz you want to learn how to play Kog ~ in as many situations as possible.)

I love this lil' guys's hunger and (play)style so much. I start to play LoL very loong years ago, and now I feel... I found my mawmate.

(625) |

Yeah you can pick him in any situation if you just really want to play him, I do it too. :P He just synergizes a lot better with than any other support. Also the meta's changed to become a lot favourable for him anyway so the "only pick with Lulu" idea's kinda out-dated rn.

(3) |

Detailed guide on ADC kogmaw.Thanks!

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Hi.

(8) |

just to say, i have tested your build, i mean i have followed some of your guides here and i have ended by carring easy the game using the same runes as you have but the masteries i went for ferocity not for cunning stormraider, i have made my build set like that mixed some, first item hurrican runnan, then boots berserker, then guinsoo then i went for blood thristy for high life steal and shield then i took the frozen mallet and last item wit's end, it was great build, i'll give it a try using your masteries later and see what it gives.

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(8) |

the bio arcan video is old that was before the rework when u activate it you get attack speed now its changed and in your guide it still the old one, if possible to edite it now it only gives range and hp % damage no active attack speed.

(1495) |

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Quality stuff as usual. I have a few questions/suggestions.

1) I would discuss since it's the next most popular keystone on Kog. Maybe just say something about Kog not making use of the AD as well or him dealing enough reliable damage that survivability is more valuable.

2)

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the difference between a buffed and a regular Kog'Maw is like light and day

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with and without is like the difference between light and day.

The phrase is actually, "like night and day," meaning they're remarkably different.

3) I actually doubt AD marks increase Kog's DPS, especially past the early game. Maybe emphasize how important early levels + last-hitting are in that rune description. I could see people trying to justify AS marks/quints since it's an on-hit build.

4) I feel like "stat-efficient" isn't a super accurate description for armor marks and MR glyphs. The most stat-efficient seal is scaling HP. You're running armor so you don't get shut out of the early game, so that's what I'd focus on in the explanation. Similar thing with MR glyphs. If you want you could add that bot laners don't gain XP as quickly so scaling runes aren't as strong on them.

5) Change the AS quint description as your logic doesn't apply to Kog (AD quints don't sound better on him in theory). If anything you should be talking about AS as opposed to lifesteal, not AD.

6) In your masteries section, change to and to .

7) I noticed you didn't include as a viable mastery. If you think it's definitely worse than , your logic would be a good addition. Personally I don't like GG as much as DG but other people do.

8) You have a coding error in your skill order section.

9) ? Or do you always just buy daggers or boots or something with that amount of gold?

10) Maybe add for the occasional .

11) Thoughts on defensive boots (mainly Tabi)? Or is it just zerkers every game?

Okay I think that's all I've got (tbh I'm too lazy to comb through all the gameplay stuff, I'm sure it's fine). Great guide. :)

(625) |

1. I don't discuss things that aren't worth using. Call it a time-saving strategy. :^)

2. me no very good london

3. I mean they do increase his DPS, just not as much as AS marks would. That's the case with almost every ADC, possibly every ADC not named . But AS marks would have him overcapping eventually anyway, even though early on they would improve his DPS more so than other ADC's.

4. Stat efficiency implies stats that are relevant to your champion/role. Of the stats relevant to , armor seals and MR glyphs are the most stat efficient for their slots. If I could pick up 15% attack speed from glyphs I would, but alas.

5. When I say they sound better in theory I just mean in lane, for last-hitting and trading/poking with autos. AS quints are obviously better mid-late game, but so are AS marks, and yet we don't take them. That's where the whole AD quints being less efficient than AD marks explanation comes in.

6. Every ******** guide dude.

7. It would if I were making these guides as in-depth as possible, but I don't want to spend that much time on the little things that aren't going to improve anyone's gameplay. All the readers need to know is to run the masteries I tell them to, the in-depth explanations are better used elsewhere (e.g. I explain items because it's important for readers to know which are irreplaceable, and which are situational and when to use them).

8. Whoops.

9. Yeah you can pretty much always pick up a if you back on that much gold with . I wouldn't ever buy it and delay his first powerspike that much when you have other items to pick up for that gold.

10. As Skittle said, it's really bad, and also unreliable for dealing with Blitz hook since it's easy for enemies to drop the shield. I feel like + is a better way of dealing with Blitz hooks, but having said that I seem to have forgotten to explain that mechanic this time around.

11. I was honestly just expecting to be either nerfed or soon to be nerfed. If Riot are actually treating them as balanced then I will have to add them.

Thanks for the feedback! For the most part your suggestions are good but I'm not bothered about adding that much depth to my newer guides, and am just focusing on the larger, more important aspects. The tidbits like runes and masteries I feel aren't too useful to go in-depth on since the only thing that's important is that the readers use them, not that they understand why they're the best.

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The tidbits like runes and masteries I feel aren't too useful to go in-depth on since the only thing that's important is that the readers use them, not that they understand why they're the best.

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I could spend hours upon hours making every single one of my guides as in-depth as my guide, or I could focus on making sure we have as little guides like this at #1.

I feel like focusing less on the least important bits and more on the important parts to write guides faster is a more effective use of my time in terms of helping others. I don't want my guides to be absolute perfection, I just want to make sure that for as many champions as possible, readers are getting correct information about the optimal way of playing a champion. Small details like runes and masteries that are mostly just going to be blindly followed anyway don't feel important to me.

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"I don't want my guides to be absolute perfection,"

Yeah that's a Jhin thing

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Just a heads up on the , I'm pretty sure Riot is thinking them of balanced at the current moment. There COULD be nerfs in the future, but Meddler doesn't think so. I'm also sure they could seem way stronger due to the amount of AD comps there is now because of lethality, but who knows. Anyways, Here is the link if you are interested! Hope this helped!

Luxeon

(57) |

"light and day" that's so cute that he wrote that. But then again, he is in England now so daytime is usually very grey/dark Kappa

Also I would say for point 10, Banshee's is just... bad. I think on all ADCs you get more out of other items. With how easy it is to pop the shield, and how long the CD is, you're better off just not buying one and the old "don't get hooked"