Gragas with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Gragas and Cho'Gath
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Gragas Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Cho'Gath
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Cho'Gath, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Cho'Gath doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Cho'Gath
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gragas that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a not very good companion for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 46.0%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Gragas and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when enlisting Cho'Gath allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gragas players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Gragas and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Gragas and Cho'Gath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 46.0% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.0% win rate overall.
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