Cho'Gath with Katarina
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Katarina
based on 2,359 Cho'Gath with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Cho'Gath Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Katarina, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Katarina.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Katarina on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Katarina does a poor job of covering Cho'Gath during team fights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Katarina
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top ally for Cho'Gath that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a relatively poor teammate for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same side as Cho'Gath, she decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 48.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Cho'Gath and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players need to be cautious when finding Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Cho'Gath and Katarina together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of support. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to pair well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Cho'Gath and Katarina synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 48.0% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, Cho'Gath players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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