Xin Zhao with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Xin Zhao and Cho'Gath
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Xin Zhao Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xin Zhao and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Xin Zhao with Cho'Gath
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
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.
Xin Zhao Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Xin Zhao in LoL
The Xin Zhao 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, Xin Zhao sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Cho'Gath helps Xin Zhao perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xin Zhao is an ally to Cho'Gath, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Cho'Gath provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Xin Zhao is played together with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Xin Zhao plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Xin Zhao during teamfights.
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Is Xin Zhao better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Xin Zhao that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical ally for Xin Zhao. By being on the same team as Xin Zhao, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 50.0%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Xin Zhao and Cho'Gath that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a greater difficulty than Xin Zhao. That means Xin Zhao players must be careful when enlisting Cho'Gath teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Xin Zhao players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Xin Zhao and Cho'Gath together, you will not be granting your side enough crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xin Zhao to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Xin Zhao and Cho'Gath synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Xin Zhao used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with many other common builds. In fact, Xin Zhao had an average win rate of 50.0% helping carry Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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