Garen with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Garen and Cho'Gath
based on 1,159 Garen with Cho'Gath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Garen with Cho'Gath
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Advice to Understand How Cho'Gath Will Play
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.
Garen Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Garen in LoL
The Garen Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Cho'Gath helps Garen perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Cho'Gath, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Cho'Gath does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Garen in teamfights.
Synergies between Garen and Cho'Gath
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Is Garen better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no perfect companion for Garen that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Cho'Gath is a not very good teammate for Garen. By locking into the same side as Garen, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 47.1%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Garen and Cho'Gath that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Cho'Gath comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Garen players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Garen and Cho'Gath together, you will not be giving your team much crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Garen in order to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Garen and Cho'Gath synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with most other common item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 47.1% helping carry Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Garen players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
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