Cho'Gath with Kennen
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Kennen
based on 488 Cho'Gath with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Kennen Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Cho'Gath Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kennen helps Cho'Gath perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cho'Gath is paired with Kennen, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kennen does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Kennen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kennen.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Kennen does a decent job of covering Cho'Gath in team fights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Kennen
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Cho'Gath that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Kennen is a very bad companion for Cho'Gath. By being on the same side as Cho'Gath, he lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 45.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Cho'Gath and Kennen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players don't need to be careful when lining up Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Cho'Gath and Kennen together, you may not be providing your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kennen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath to synergize with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Cho'Gath and Kennen synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kennen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 45.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you 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 sets players chose for Cho'Gath and Kennen pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.5% winrate overall.
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