Talk:Kog'Maw/@comment-112.204.185.220-20130320113913/@comment-4580591-20130320133349

Kog is way harder than Graves as he's naturally tanky with his passive, has his e and w for escape and he has n high burst damage. Kog is different, he's really weak early game as his power is on the % of his w and the high range on abilities and autoattack comes with late game. You can choose from a classic crit based build with x2 pd, bloodthirster, ie, berseker boots and last wisperer. He has no phisical damage so black cleaver is not useful. If you want you can switch one pd with ga, but as defensive item is better something like warmog or even better frozen mallet as you don't have many chances of escape if you're in a bad position during your revive of ga. You can also go for a pure ad build with stuff like runan, bloodthirster, mercurial, last wisperer, berseker boots and blade of the ruined king. It's better to start with BotrK as it gives you all you need in laning phase and he's awesome for its speed boost, healing, max hp % damage and slow with his active on kog. Btw, ap kog is also a good pick, maybe even better in solo queue than ad kog as ad kog needs a lot of protection from his team, so it's better to have at least one premade when you're playing him (don't misunderstand me, he's really good anyway), but as ap you can keep distance, build more hp and mana and spam abilities. The decision between ap and ad is only based on your gamestyle; even ap kog can be played full ap or asap with malady and nashor tooth, all depends if you want to use abilities or also autoattack a lot.

He's my favourite champ so yea, i would suggest him to you, he's really funny to play even if it's quite hard at the beginning as you have to position during fights in the best way you can as if you get caught, you're 80% death without support help.