Talk:Kog'Maw/@comment-25532677-20151102181209

The more I look through Preseason, the less Overpowered I see Kog'Maw being, and the more under-powered I kinda start seeing him.

There are no changes to his passive, whether this is a good thing or not it unclear. Because on one hand, if Kog'Maw becomes hard to kill, his passive loses some utility to it. If he becomes too easy to kill, his passive becomes strong giving him the last laugh by dealing a lot of true damage to the enemy.

His Q got buffed for the better, longer range and more attack speed. But they also lessened his AS growth, so this is kind of a double edged sword. You won't see your AS as high as it once was until you put points into your Q.

His W seems kind of weak at the moment. It looks very difficult to equal to the 6% max HP per auto while still maintaining a solid build. On top of that, his autos now deal a reduced damage whilst using it. This means it's going to be hard to equal the damage per auto of Kog'Maw now as to Preseason Kog. Whether or not PreS has higher DPS than now is still to be seen. On top of that, they lessened Kog's total AD, currently, he equals to a solid 100 AD at lvl 18. Now, he will have around 94 AD.

R is kinda tough. On one hand, I hate they lowered its base damage (and AP) and took away the double base damage to champs. On the other hand, it's going to deal way more damage to targets with 50-25% hp and most likely one shot enemies below 25%. My only complaint is that there is no damage multiplier for 75-50%. I would like it if they added a 1.5x damage multiplier for that. They are also rasing the mana costs of this along with the time it takes for it's cost to reset. Meaning you can't spam it so willy nilly, you have to be decisive with your shots.

It also hurts with the changes made to Trinity force. Removing the AP, lowering the AD, and halving the AS is going to hurt his core item. No longer do I see getting this for sheen proccing as a valuable decision. There's a lack of solid item choices out there for Koggy, I see Botrk and Rageblade as invaluable choices, with Rever and Hurricane as good items, but not many options seem to be out there for him.