Talk:Kog'Maw/@comment-36002403-20190404090832/@comment-26808509-20190409132813

I think he is fine, he is currently just underplayed because the meta doesn't fit him. likes chilled early games where he can just farm, peel heavy supports who can protect him and lots of immobile tanks in the enemy team.

And right now, non of these things are trending. , ,  and are dominating the botlane due to their insane early power (  is somewhat stable because of her mobility that can keep her alive for longer than  ). Also they often are paired with early strong supports like, , or . Tanks haven't been meta for quite a while now and instead you are facing bruisers and assassins most of the time. However, with the and  buffs and some nerfs to other champs, this might chaange now and Kog' could recieve a comeback.

And I kind of agree and disagree about the. I agree that it's kind of bad, you only benefit off of it when you die, which allways is a bad thing, and most of the time the damage doesn't matter too much. HOWEVER, there is a thing called power budget. In an ideal world, every champ has the same powerlevel and what makes them different is how it's spread over their kit. Some champs have equally strong abilities all over their kit - like for example - and some have all their power shoved into one aspect of their kit and the rest of their spells are only kind of meh. Kog'maw belongs to the latter.

His  is incredibly powerfull. It's the strongest steroid in the game, because it gives him insane high range and insane on-hit damage which is item independant (only an AP scaling and the base damage allready is high enough, means he can completely concentrate on attackspeed and additional on-hit effects). Naturally all his other spells are not useless by any means, but they aren't that powerful either. His whole strength lies in his. It defines the whole champ. In order to give him a 'more useful passive' - which in other words would simply mean 'stronger' - they would have to lower the strength of something else in his kit. And since almost all his power lies in his, they would have to nerf it.

And that's something they don't want to do, because - as I allready said - this spell defines his whole identity and his role in the game. And before you mention it, they can't just make his W on-hit his new passive, because it's % max damage on ever AA. It would break the champ. The pay off of his powerful  is that it's only for a certain duration. Having it permanently would simply be too strong.