Cho'Gath with Malzahar
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Malzahar
based on 2,290 Cho'Gath with Malzahar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Malzahar Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Cho'Gath Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Malzahar helps Cho'Gath perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cho'Gath is paired with Malzahar, he observes a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Malzahar does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Malzahar 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 alongside Malzahar.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Malzahar does a poor job of protecting Cho'Gath in team fights.
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Cho'Gath that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Malzahar is a very typical companion for Cho'Gath. By being on the same team as Cho'Gath, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 50.2%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Cho'Gath and Malzahar that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Malzahar has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players should be careful when enlisting Malzahar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, Cho'Gath players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Cho'Gath and Malzahar together, you will not be providing your side much AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Malzahar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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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 pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Cho'Gath and Malzahar synergy build include Heartsteel, Hollow Radiance, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 sets players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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