Illaoi with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Illaoi and Cho'Gath
based on 552 Illaoi with Cho'Gath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Illaoi Items
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Summoner Spells
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Cho'Gath
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her 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 Illaoi perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi is paired with Cho'Gath, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Cho'Gath helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Illaoi during team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Cho'Gath
Damage Types Compared
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no one best companion for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a good companion for Illaoi. By being on the same team as Illaoi, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 50.7%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Illaoi and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a greater difficulty than Illaoi. That means you should be careful when finding Cho'Gath allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Illaoi and Cho'Gath together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Illaoi and Cho'Gath synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with most other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Cho'Gath with Illaoi are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.