Cho'Gath vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Cho'Gath
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Cho'Gath vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Bard
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Cho'Gath vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Cho'Gath against Bard matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Cho'Gath often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Bard
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 46.1% win rate. As a result, Cho'Gath makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower winrate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Cho'Gath also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Cho'Gath into Bard.
Moreover, Cho'Gath also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Cho'Gath is a terribly counter for Bard. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Cho'Gath against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Cho'Gath
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath often accumulates much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Cho'Gath versus Bard build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 46.1% battling Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Bard as Cho'Gath, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Cho'Gath vs Bard matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Bard as Cho'Gath are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.