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Hey guys, I've been working on a Kog'Maw build for quite a bit now. I've been seeing people theorycrafting about AP builds, and I totally agree with them that if built correctly it could be stronger than pure AD. However, I see Kog'Maws building Tears of the Goddess and try to R spam as they build up their mana pool (to keep up their R-spam late game?) and going for pure AP and very little else. I think that this is the wrong way to go about it, as using Kog'Maw only for his R, while fun and useful while turret hugging or pushing, makes very little use of his sick passives and his ridiculous range with w. I think that making use of his w (which scales with AP as well, with enough AP you can get 11% of their life with each proc or something ridiculous like that) with AP and attackspeed is the right way to go.

I start off with the a doran's shield (or blade if you can manage it), and build zerks. Then I go into bloodrazors. Seems pretty normal so far. But then I deviate from regular builds by getting a Stinger, which gives attackspeed and a 10%cdr. If you can get your jungler to give you the third blue by this point, you can have nearly full cdr on your w which makes you very hard to lane against if you're still even in the laning phase at all. The stinger gets made into a Nashor's tooth, which has attack speed, AP, mregen, and 25% CDR, all of which are fine on Kog'Maw. As long as you are not spamming R nonstop, you should have absolutely no mana problems by this point even without blue (it just allows you to do that, but you don't need that too badly yet). If the game isn't over by now, I pick my choice of Rylai's or Zhonyas and build the next whenever I can and then by now the game should be over. I prefer getting Rylai's first because the AP gets your w to about 8 or 9% of their life per hit. Combined with bloodrazors and Rylai's slowing effect, you are an absolute monster in teamfights. Additionally, Nashor's tooth is enough to keep your w's cooldown to 9 seconds, which means you only have 3 seconds every fight at which point your w is not on. Rylai's and Zhonyas together give you so much survivability that you are nearly impossible to kill as long as you have your team somewhere nearby.

I actually got a pentakill after I was playing on my friend's account solo q because they killed our ww who was nashoring, and then garen/taric/sona decided to be silly and attack them right as they killed nashor while I finished off the blue golem. by the time I got near enough to start w'ing them, my team had died and I managed to kill two of them off with w and r (the vision from R is just sexy) and kiting, and when three of them had me surrounded in a bush, I zhonya'd, flashed into our red, r'd them, and kited them with r, w, and e. Rylai's alone gives you so much slow and survival, with Zhonya it just seems plain unfair.

I take flash/cleanse, because cleanse->flash-> e is usually enough to keep you alive early game, and cleanse + zhonya makes you very difficult to instagib. If you're confident enough to play with flash/ghost or have a team that can help you chase while keeping you alive, I would definetly go for it.

As for runes, an attackspeed page would probably still be optimal, but you can really run whatever the hell you like (which is what I love about this build as of now, because I only have arpen runes and 2 rune pages since i changed from EU D=) as the items give you so much stats. Lategame, elixer pump is mandatory: if your team is getting into big teamfights pretty early, you can start pumping green right after razors, and after you get rylai's blue is also quite valuable because quite a large amount of damage comes from your spells at this point (as if they hadn't already!).

I think that the greatest pros of this build are the survivability that the Zhonyas give you combined with the AoE slows you obtain from your rylais is just so great. I mean, most people wouldn't be justified in getting either in an AD build your DPS is still stellar, with the bloodrazors+ boosted w.

I would think a 9-0-21 would work best with this, as the spell pen and cdr on summoners helps a lot with survivability and damage output for your razors and w and whatnot.
If this is already a really common build, I apologize for your time. Otherwise, try it out!
edit: i'm a vulture :o