Talk:Kog'Maw/@comment-3450702-20110719115127/@comment-71.233.127.32-20110720170923

Nashor's tooth wasn't made for Kog. It's sucks arse and every time I see some newbie praising it I die inside. It's an overpriced piece of crap for several reasons:

a) Kog doesn't scale very well with the AP it provides, which is also mediocre (insignificant on Q because Q is short range and both W and R have terribly awful AP ratios). b) Pure AS is not nearly as good as the on-hit magic damage doesn't include the buffs from Wit's End or Malady, which also provide comparable AS for much much cheaper. c) If you want to max CDR you can do it easily with cdr blue runes + 9/0/21 masteries and either blue buff or cdr boots + a blue pot when you really need it (even without blue pot you only have 1.22 seconds of W downtime every 10 seconds). d) The mana regen isn't really necessary on attack speed Kog since he's never been a mana whore like AP Kog always has been. The #1 way to go oom on Kog has always been ult spam, #2 has been pointless ooze spam.

TLDR While technically Kog "scales" with all the stats you're paying 2900 gold for something that gives you far less DPS and damage than a a 1800 gold item and CDR boots.