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🧙‍♂️🐛 ANTI-MAGE AP KOG MAW BUILD 🐛🧙‍♂️ HEY GUYS RIOT SAID MAGES IN BOT LANE AREN'T PROBLEMATIC BUT BY THE SHAPE OF MY BUTTHOLE I THINK IT BEGS TO DIFFER Anyways, no one plays this cawk spitting monster but I've been climbing with him in challenger and I swear to god he's super broken and braindead AND REALLY GOOD INTO MAGES. Most mages are immobile and pretty easy to lane into as AP Kogmaw. By Level 11 you outscale their RANGE, BURST, AND DPS WOW Here's 67 reasons why he's op: First Strike - free money printer since you have so much range especially bc you start E (BLEUUEGH). Also if people step on your E after you miss it you still get money 🤑 JoaT - you get 10 Jack stacks if you go banshee/zhonyas which are super good late game items for you Ludens - once you get ludens, your e will 1 shot the backline as long as luden proc is up + works well with first strike so you get more money MAGE - you are a glorified mage who will also 1 shot tanks (SOMETHING MAGES CAN'T DO!!) you can larp larp sahur as a marksman making the enemy team think you're weak and frail and then you press E Q W AA and they're dead RANGE - at level 16 you start playing battleship with the enemy team because your R has the entire screen's range His laning is super easy press e off cd and your opponent will get canc, you outpoke and outdmg basically anyone as long as your playing around your CD's (as long as you hit your skillshots uh don't miss) actually nvm once you have dusk and dawn you can start missing half your abilities and still win LOL BUILD ORDER: Ludens > Stormsurge > DND > Deathcap NO MATTER WHAT dumb ass questions: 1) Why no dusk and dawn first? if you want to sit there and proc sheen 4 times be my guest, i will press e on the wave and leave because it disappeared! DND doesn't do any damage first item on kog'maw because you are MAXING E first so you can have the best laning phase as possible. Maxing e gives you insane prio in lane because you out range everyone while also giving you good wave clear to move to objectives first 2) Where is rageblade? I'm not fucking AD kog'maw if you go AD Kog'maw glhf at mcdonalds. The point of this build is to maximize the Dusk and Dawn sheen proc damage, not to auto fast. AD Kog'maw does 50% MAGIC damage anyways depending on what you build 3) What if we are full AP? Do I go AP anyways? Yes! If you can hit your q you will still do infinite damage to tanks even if they are full MR 4) Why no archangel or shadowflame? Archangel suck dick luden help you clear wave and also procs on your passive! Shadowflame expensive, me poor. Shadowflame don't proc Jack, my name Jack. After 4 items and lvl 16, you are guarenteed to win just because you do so much damage from off of their screens even if you're 0/10 AND LORD JESUS CHRIST OF AMERICA PLEASE DO NOT SAY AD KOG'MAW IS BETTER WHEN AP 1 SHOTS YOU FROM 10000 MILES AWAY + INSTANTLY BURTS DOWN ANY TANK WITH Q W AA WITH 40% MAX HP SHEEN PROCS (That's like 6 AD Kog maw autos!!!) DO U REALLY WANT to sit there spitting balls at their head for 10 seconds before they die or press 3 buttons and they die anyways if you read this far I actually think he's a really good blind pick that won't make you wanna blitzcrank ult bathtub if they pick a mage, his only issue is that his abilities can be hard to hit and unreliable. But if you don't miss his dmg is completely absurd

The real mage bot counter but an adc will never pick it

Patch 26.14 Full Preview! Mages Bot - we've pulled brand from the patch given the concerns around mages bot - that said, we know this is a contentious topic, and I'll give some high level thoughts on how we see the situation (and more detailed thoughts in the patch rundown) - we see mages bot as creating healthy diversity for the bot lane experience overall (roughly 4:1 ratio of traditional marksmen to mages), even though for some traditional marksmen, they can be quite frustrating - it's important that players experience a mix of games at high intensity (eg. Playing adc against rengar/talon + mages bot) and also games that are more comfortable and low threat (maybe ivern jungle) as it creates the variety and flow state that keeps the game fun - too much intensity or too little intensity would make the game unfun in the long run as you'd never really feel those spikes of cortisol and triumph (which is one of the reasons assassins need to be strong for example) or be constantly stressed - marksmen are still the most popular bot carry in both pro and regular play - mages bot also need to be viable picks to allow teams to undoom themselves in champ select for an ad mid pick like zed/yone/Yasuo - that said, mages bot have pretty high winrates (often the highest), so aren't they overpowered? - The winrates don't really tell the full story, but they are definitely strong for several reasons. Mages, especially simple ones like brand, veigar or Swain for example have quite shallow mastery curves (usually only gaining 3-4% after playing ~50 games and also starting very high on game 1) in addition to not being deeply played in bot lane (ie. many mage bot players haven't progressed the mastery curve that far when you encounter them AND the mastery curve is not that steep) -> a similar effect to if you played autofilled malphite top (high skill floor) - adcs by contrast are typically harder to play but also reward that mastery depth more, meaning their winrates are relatively suppressed compared to mages bot - I'm not saying that mages at high levels of mastery/skill are weak (see them in pro play or high elo ranked), but mainly saying that winrates don't tell the full story and we see them as relatively similar in power level overall, just often more forgiving and can be more tolerant of matchup - adcs also have accelerated 3 item spikes in this season (compared to the other roles) due to bot quest, which also presents an interesting strategic balancing point (the mages a bit stronger on early item spikes and weaker on later ones) - another balancing aspect of mages bot is that they typically represent a composition tradeoff. Eg. ori + yunara/lulu bot lane and win on 2/3 items or AD mid plus ziggs+engage bot and need to end the game fast - if struggling with mages bot, champs like ezreal/sivir/zeri can be quite effective against them (dodge skills and have strong 2/3 item spikes and out scale) - anyway, a nuanced conversation that I'll dig into more in a video later Azir - players have been complaining about a bunch of bugged functionality for Azir ever since we made the changes to make on hits work on him - the team has fixed the vast majority of these bugs, eg. Things like jungle monsters not getting shuffled, pta not working, conq stacks, etc. - thanks to all your bug reports in helping track these down and keep them coming! Proto Harness - when looking at our jungle nasus nerfs, we ended up deciding that a better nerf would be to target proto harness - other users like shen jungle are also pretty strong, so we think pulling the champ nerfs and nerfing the item instead is a better direction and helps retain the power level of top nasus for example The other changes in this patch are relatively straightforward, but lmk if there's any more detail wanted and I can cover them in the rundown next week