Bard with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Bard and Cho'Gath
based on 2,013 Bard with Cho'Gath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Bard with Cho'Gath
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Understand How Cho'Gath Will Play
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.
Bard Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Bard in LoL
The Bard Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Cho'Gath helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Cho'Gath, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Cho'Gath helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no one best champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Cho'Gath is a very typical companion for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, he raises their win rate by 0.6% to 52.9%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Bard and Cho'Gath that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Cho'Gath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Bard and Cho'Gath together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to work well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Bard and Cho'Gath synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Cho'Gath than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Bard and Cho'Gath pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Cho'Gath with Bard are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.