Talk:Kog'Maw/@comment-4636093-20140212175843/@comment-1330314-20140212181426

The post-game damage report you're getting is misleading. It doesn't show the distribution of your damage (i.e. which target took the most physical damage and which target took the most magic damage), and while it looks like it's telling you to build hybrid/AP/Magic Pen, doing so would actually risk severely reducing your damage output.

To explain: all of Kog's ability damage is magic, including the damage dealt by his ult (which scales with AD). That's partly why your magic damage is so high. Additionally, assuming your opponents are competent, the enemy tank and/or bruiser should be building health and armor early on. The armor mitigates the physical damage you deal, and the magic damage on your W eats through their health. Even the enemy APC should be building a bit of armor, thus increasing the relative amount of magic damage you're dealing. That's why your magic damage output looks equal to that of your physical damage: the tankier certain enemies become to face you, the more magic damage you deal to them relative to your physical damage.

For this reason, comitting to AP would actually harm your damage output more than anything. By building AD, you're forcing the enemy team to build armor, otherwise the raw damage of your autoattacks would just destroy them. By going full AP, however, the enemy team can just completely counter you with magic resistance. You will also have a much harder time killing squishy targets (against whom you shouldn't have a problem as AD Kog), which means you'll fare poorly against assassins and the enemy ADC. As AD Kog'Maw, your basic attacks alone will shred through the enemy squishies, and coupled with a Blade of the Ruined King the hybrid percent health damage on your W should give you an edge against tankier targets.

Also, if you can, replace Berserker's Greaves with a Zephyr if you get enough gold, once you're done with the rest of your items. It works wonders on Kog's damage output, and barely reduces his movement speed.