Cho'Gath with Shaco
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Shaco
based on 2,967 Cho'Gath with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Cho'Gath Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shaco helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath is paired with Shaco, he gets a noticable increase in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Shaco provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played with Shaco 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 Shaco.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Shaco on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of covering Cho'Gath in teamfights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Shaco
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no top synergy for Cho'Gath that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Shaco is a very typical teammate for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same side as Cho'Gath, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Cho'Gath and Shaco that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Cho'Gath. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Shaco allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Cho'Gath and Shaco together, you will not be granting your side much crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 truly master Cho'Gath to synergize with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Cho'Gath and Shaco synergy build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Hollow Radiance. When Cho'Gath included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Shaco than with many other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Cho'Gath players 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 runes players chose for Cho'Gath and Shaco pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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