Heimerdinger with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Cho'Gath
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Heimerdinger Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Cho'Gath
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger is paired with Cho'Gath, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Cho'Gath provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played with Cho'Gath 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 with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Heimerdinger in teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Cho'Gath
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no ideal companion for Heimerdinger that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical companion for Heimerdinger. By playing on the same team as Heimerdinger, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Cho'Gath that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Cho'Gath comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Heimerdinger and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Heimerdinger in order to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Heimerdinger and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Cho'Gath than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Heimerdinger and Cho'Gath pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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