Cho'Gath with Garen
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Garen
based on 1,159 Cho'Gath with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Garen Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Garen Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Cho'Gath Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Garen
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Garen
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 Understand How Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Cho'Gath Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Cho'Gath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Cho'Gath perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Garen, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Garen does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Garen 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 alongside Garen.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Cho'Gath during teamfights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Garen
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Garen?
There is no one best champion pairing for Cho'Gath that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Garen is a relatively poor companion for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 47.1%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Cho'Gath and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Garen has a lower difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players don't need to be cautious when arranging Garen teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by grouping Cho'Gath and Garen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Cho'Gath
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Cho'Gath Players
How We Calculated Our Cho'Gath Garen Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Cho'Gath in order to pair well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Cho'Gath and Garen synergy build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 47.1% when playing alongside Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Cho'Gath and Garen pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Garen with Cho'Gath are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.