Shaco with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Shaco and Cho'Gath
based on 2,967 Shaco with Cho'Gath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Cho'Gath
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Cho'Gath helps Shaco perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco is an ally to Cho'Gath, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Cho'Gath supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played together 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 with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Shaco during teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Cho'Gath
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Shaco that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Cho'Gath is a very typical teammate for Shaco. By being on the same team as Shaco, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.7%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Shaco and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Cho'Gath comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Shaco and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 Shaco in order to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Shaco and Cho'Gath synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Shaco combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Shaco and Cho'Gath pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
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