Nasus with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Nasus and Cho'Gath
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Nasus Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nasus and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Nasus with Cho'Gath
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Nasus in LoL
The Nasus 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, Nasus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Nasus perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nasus plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Cho'Gath provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nasus is played with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Nasus plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Nasus during team fights.
Synergies between Nasus and Cho'Gath
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Is Nasus better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no top synergy for Nasus that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical teammate for Nasus. By being on the same team as Nasus, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 49.4%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Nasus and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Nasus. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Cho'Gath comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Nasus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nasus and Cho'Gath together, you may not be granting your team very much support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nasus to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Nasus and Cho'Gath synergy build include Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Cho'Gath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 49.4% helping carry Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Nasus players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% winrate overall.
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