Cho'Gath with Rakan
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Rakan
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Cho'Gath Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Cho'Gath Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rakan helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath is an ally to Rakan, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Rakan supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rakan.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Rakan on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Cho'Gath in team fights.
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Cho'Gath that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Rakan is a very typical ally for Cho'Gath. By being on the same team as Cho'Gath, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Cho'Gath and Rakan that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Rakan has a lower difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Rakan allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Cho'Gath and Rakan together, you will not be giving your other teammates much AD. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Cho'Gath and Rakan synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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 sets we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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