Hecarim with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Hecarim and Cho'Gath
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Hecarim Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Cho'Gath
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Hecarim perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim tries to synergize with Cho'Gath, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Cho'Gath helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Cho'Gath does a decent job of protecting Hecarim in team fights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Cho'Gath
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a not very good ally for Hecarim. By playing on the same team as Hecarim, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Hecarim and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Cho'Gath comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Hecarim players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by aligning Hecarim and Cho'Gath together, you may not be providing your team much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold 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 learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to work well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Hecarim and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Cho'Gath than with most other common builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Hecarim players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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