Set 18 · Enchanted Wilds ·3-cost · Caustic / Adaptor / Invoker Updated · every 6 h

Kog'Maw

Kog'Maw is a 3-cost ranged unit with 18 copies in the shared pool. 4.29 average placement across 1.2M ranked games, ranking 1 of 14 among 3-costs.

Kog'Maw
Caustic Adaptor Invoker
Raining Artillery

Adaptor : Launch acid at the target and the other nearest enemy, dealing physical damage. Enemies below max Health take physical damage instead. Adaptor: Damages enemies over time.

Average place
4.29
#1 of 14 3-costs
Top 4 rate
55.5%
Win rate 10.3%
Tier in bracket
S
Among 3-costs
Copies in pool
18
Shared by all 8 players

Best items for Kog'Maw

These are the builds recorded on boards that played Kog'Maw this patch, ordered by how often they appear. The first row is the default; the rest are what people build when the components didn't cooperate.

BuildIn compAvg placeGames
Infinity Edge Red Buff Spear of Shojin Adaptor Master Yi 3.67 373

Note what the table does not say: that you should hold components waiting for the top row. A two-item Kog'Maw on the board at 4-1 beats a perfect one at 5-2 in almost every game you'll play — the reasoning is in the chapter on slamming.

Building Kog'Maw mid-game? The in-game TFT helper shows how many copies are left in the pool under the shop and grades each augment for the comp you're on, without leaving the game.

Stats by star level

Health and attack damage roughly multiply by 1.8 per star, which is the whole reason a 3★ 1-cost can hold a board that a 1★ 4-cost cannot. Armour, magic resist and range never change with stars.

StarHealthAttack damage ArmourMR Attack speedRangeMana
★ 650 — 35 35 0.8 4 15/55
★★ 1170 — 35 35 0.8 4 15/55
★★★ 2106 — 35 35 0.8 4 15/55

The mana column is start/cost: Kog'Maw begins each fight with 15 mana and casts at 55. That gap is what a Tear closes, and it's why the same item is transformative on one unit and wasted on another — see how mana works.

Comps playing Kog'Maw

Ranked by the comp's own average placement. A Kog'Maw marked as a carry is one the comp builds items on.

Other 3-costs

Where these numbers come from. Placements, win rates and pick rates are aggregated from ranked Teamfight Tactics games — the same dataset the NoxuTFT desktop app reads, refreshed every six hours. Champion costs, traits, item recipes and trait breakpoints are game data from Riot. Tier letters are relative to this set: S is the top 10% by average placement, not an absolute threshold, and champions are ranked inside their cost bracket because a 5-cost's average only looks good for having been reached from a winning position. NoxuTFT is not affiliated with Riot Games.