Rakan with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Rakan and Cho'Gath
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Rakan Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Cho'Gath
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan 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 negative change shows that Cho'Gath helps Rakan perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Cho'Gath helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Rakan in teamfights.
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no perfect ally for Rakan that will always be his best synergy. However, Cho'Gath is a not very good companion for Rakan. By locking into the same team as Rakan, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 49.3%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Rakan and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Rakan. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Cho'Gath comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Rakan players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Rakan and Cho'Gath together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Rakan to work well with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Rakan and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Cho'Gath than with most other common builds. In fact, Rakan boasted an average win rate of 49.3% helping carry Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Rakan and Cho'Gath pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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