Hwei vs Kog’Maw Counter Pick

Both champions fight at distance, so the 50 units Hwei holds, 550 against 500, matter less than which one can act without a setup step. Kog’Maw needs Bio-Arcane Barrage active to extend his attacks and add maximum-health magic damage on-hit, and every second of that window is a second spent standing still at 330 base movement. The bot lane record is 60.3% for Hwei over 126 games on patch 16.13.1, difficulty Easy.

Hwei works from a menu rather than a rotation. Subject: Disaster, Subject: Serenity and Subject: Torment each replace his abilities with a different set, damaging, utility or crowd control, and Signature of the Visionary completes once a second damaging spell lands on a primed champion. That flexibility punishes a kit with one pattern and no escape; Void Ooze slows a line and Caustic Spittle corrodes armour and magic resist, but neither creates distance.

Durability sits close: 580 base health and 2,433 at level 18 for Hwei, 635 and 2,318 for Kog’Maw, with 100.9 armour against 99.7. Icathian Surprise still detonates true damage four seconds after he dies, worth respecting once Spiraling Despair has slowed everyone near the first champion it struck. Base armour of 24 against 21 with 30 magic resist on both sides leaves nothing to hide behind early, and Living Artillery is the only tool he owns that works without shortening the distance. Execution ratings are 9 against 6.