Talk:Kog'Maw/@comment-25364408-20160726102509/@comment-12904660-20160728164732

My experience with it: A tear of the goddess is quite cheap. 720 gold isn't too expensive. Unlike other champions however, kog'maw lacks a spammable cheap spell to stack it. It is better to get the pickaxe first for earlier power and then hold it for a moment then to weaken your self.

Kog'maw does the stacking mostly through attacking, so getting manamune as soon as possible is mandetory, unfortunatly. Compared to archangels the stacking is also twice as slow but that is just my personal grudge on manamune not stacking equaly and fair.

It takes quite a while to get it to muramana, and doesn't offer much damage from an item all the way untill it evolves. And when it does however, your damage will skyrocket. At this time essence reaver does become somewhat required to get your mana back, unless you get blue buff occasionaly or have water dragons.

Lastly another possitive of muramana is the large pool of mana itself, to supplement your ultimate. Given that muramana gives around 60-70 AD lategame, throw in an essence reaver, and your ultimate becomes quite fearsome. Downside is less item slots for attack speed. Not that having 2.5 is required, but it does have it's advantages.