Zilean with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Zilean and Cho'Gath
based on 891 Zilean with Cho'Gath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Cho'Gath
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Zilean perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean tries to synergize with Cho'Gath, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Cho'Gath provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Cho'Gath on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Zilean during team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Cho'Gath
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zilean that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Cho'Gath is a very typical companion for Zilean. By being on the same side as Zilean, he drops their win rate by -0.2% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Zilean and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Zilean. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Cho'Gath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Zilean and Cho'Gath together, you may not be providing your team much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to work well with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Zilean and Cho'Gath synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Morellonomicon, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Cho'Gath than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average win rate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Zilean players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zilean and Cho'Gath pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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