Katarina with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Katarina and Cho'Gath
based on 2,359 Katarina with Cho'Gath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Cho'Gath
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Cho'Gath helps Katarina perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Cho'Gath supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Katarina in teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Cho'Gath
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no perfect synergy for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical teammate for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.0%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Katarina and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when finding Cho'Gath allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Katarina players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Cho'Gath together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Katarina and Cho'Gath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Cho'Gath with Katarina are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.