Cho'Gath with Riven
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Riven
based on 1,001 Cho'Gath with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Riven Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Riven
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Cho'Gath Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Riven helps Cho'Gath perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath is paired with Riven, he gets a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Riven does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Riven 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 alongside Riven.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Riven on the same side, he often takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Riven does a decent job of covering Cho'Gath in teamfights.
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Riven?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Cho'Gath that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Riven is a not very good teammate for Cho'Gath. By being on the same side as Cho'Gath, she lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 48.4%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Cho'Gath and Riven that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means you must be careful when finding Riven teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Cho'Gath players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Cho'Gath and Riven together, you will not be granting your other teammates much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Cho'Gath and Riven synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Riven than with many other common builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 48.4% helping carry Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of beating 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 combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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