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.
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
The stats shown on this page feature some strategic Cho'Gath vs. Zyra matchup stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zyra’s ratio of NaN, showing that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zyra..
Cho'Gath often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Zyra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when facing off against Zyra, with a 44.2% win rate. Therefore, Cho'Gath makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Cho'Gath does have a much lower winrate than Zyra, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Cho'Gath into Zyra.
Furthermore, Cho'Gath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zyra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Cho'Gath is a trash counter for Zyra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Cho'Gath against Zyra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to counter Zyra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath most often picks up more CS as Zyra. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Cho'Gath versus Zyra build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Zyra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 44.2% when countering Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Zyra as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Cho'Gath vs Zyra fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.2% win rate overall.
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