Talk:Kog'Maw/@comment-8921599-20140221044704/@comment-8506165-20140306154429

"Facepalm, you know what deals more damage than your W and botrk combined? your autoattacks critting. your W does about 2-3% on tanks 3-4% on squishy's so that's like 80-120 damage on tanks and 60-80 on squishy's, instead you could have an IE and bloodthirster."

You don't buy BotRK because you necessarily want to maximise your damage, although I still reckon with W on it beats BT for damage when you have W on (yes, even with IE, although I'd have to run numbers on that), you buy it because you're Kog'Maw and you're incredibly easy to pin down or jump on, thus anything that helps mitigate that and make you slightly less dependent on peel from your team is a Good Thing™.

Runaan's is situational. Not a "win-more" item, although doubtless it does work for that - but if the enemy frontline is really tanky and they've got Sunfire, Randuin's and Thornmail (this isn't particularly unrealistic especially if your team's skewed towards AD) then AS is going to benefit you more than AD purely because it's easier to bypass their armor dealing a % of their high health as magic damage. Last Whisper? Lol, like they'll care that you took their armor down to 200 instead of 270 rather than opting for attacking their 30 MR instead. If your team lacks AOE then Runaan's can also be a really nice pick.

And no, I'm not making this crap up, I saw a game just the other day where the Kog'Maw's team lost purely because he decided more AD was the answer to the Shyvana with about 300 armor who kept jumping on him, with backup from two other tanky members of her team with a lot of armor. Made more egregious by the fact that Kog'Maw's team had Kha'Zix and Zed and so really wanted some AOE damage rather than more single-target damage against squishies.