Kog’Maw vs Jinx Counter Pick

With 1,367 games recorded on patch 16.13.1, this is a well-supported number, and it sits at 47.8% for Kog’Maw — close, but consistently on the wrong side. The 525 base range of Jinx already exceeds his 500, and Switcheroo! extends it further whenever Fishbones is equipped, which removes the spacing advantage he would otherwise rely on before his own range tool comes online.

His answer is Bio-Arcane Barrage, which lengthens his attacks and taxes a share of whatever health the target is carrying. That is a genuine reversal, but it lasts a duration rather than a fight. Between casts he is a 330 move speed champion with 24 armor and no escape, and Flame Chompers punishes precisely that, a line of snare grenades that bite champions walking over them. Zap! slows and reveals from long range, which is often all the setup a support needs.

Late, the gap narrows. Kog’Maw carries 635 base health against 630 and finishes at 2,318 against 2,415, and Living Artillery is the only tool in the pairing that threatens from outside the fight entirely. Get Excited! is the swing factor: one takedown converts Jinx into the faster champion for a stretch, and Icathian Surprise, the delayed explosion left behind on death, is thin compensation for handing over that reset.