Kog'Maw

Kog’Maw was less born into the world than flung out of it. It came out of a crumbling Void incursion in the Icathian wastelands with a caustic mouth that never closes and almost no sense of what surrounds it. To make sense of things, it chews on and slobbers over whatever it meets, tasting each object and creature before it bothers to understand them.

That doesn’t make Kog’Maw cruel, not really. Kha’Zix stalks its prey with careful planning, and Kassadin hunts because of sorrow. Kog’Maw just chases whatever catches its interest, and that innocence is risky because it rarely comes with any visible threat. When a Kog’Maw feeding frenzy breaks out, it isn’t driven by appetite or spite. It’s simply what happens when endless curiosity runs into something unfamiliar that Kog’Maw has decided is worth eating. Bystmembers nearby seldom get a chance to point out that they were never meant to be a meal.

Its kit favors reach over finesse. Caustic Spittle eats away at a target’s armor and magic resist and makes Kog’Maw’s attacks come faster. Bio-Arcane Barrage pushes out its attack range and tacks on bonus damage tied to a percentage of the target’s maximum health with every hit, so it can take on creatures far bigger than it looks capable of handling. Void Ooze lays down a slowing trail behind a corrosive projectile. Living Artillery, its ultimate, launches from an immense range and deals more damage to enemies already running low on health. Death doesn’t fully stop it either. Its passive, Icathian Surprise, makes Kog’Maw explode four seconds after it dies, a final careless burst aimed at anyone close enough to still be standing there. Even dead, it can’t help wanting to see what happens next.