How to win lane as Smolder against Kog'Maw · 51.51% win rate over 1,223 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is an even farm race between two scaling passives with no combat spike for either. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Level 2 stays skill-based: both trade autos for CS and neither has an all-in. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 remains even as both stack scaling passives rather than committing to a fight. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 are still a coin-flip farm race decided by who last-hits and pokes cleaner. |
| Level 6 | Smolder | At 6 your Mounting Flames execute and Q stack threat out-pressure Kog'Maw's mana-hungry Living Artillery, tilting the lane to you. |
| First item | Smolder | At one item your compounding Q stacks shred his immobile frame faster than his on-hit ramp comes online. |
| Two+ items | Smolder | With two-plus items your execute Q and Achooo! reposition dominate a no-mobility Kog'Maw in every skirmish. |
Both of you are scaling passives, so levels 1-2 are a pure last-hit and light-poke race with no real all-in; trade autos for CS and don't burn summoners over a wave. It's even and skill-based who farms cleaner.
The full Smolder vs Kog'Maw report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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