Akali with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Akali and Cho'Gath
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Akali Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Akali with Cho'Gath
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Akali in LoL
The Akali Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Akali perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is paired with Cho'Gath, she gets a little increase in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Cho'Gath helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Akali in teamfights.
Synergies between Akali and Cho'Gath
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Is Akali better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no top companion for Akali that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. However, Cho'Gath is a very typical ally for Akali. By locking into the same team as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Akali and Cho'Gath that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Akali. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Cho'Gath allies to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Akali and Cho'Gath together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Akali and Cho'Gath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 48.4% helping carry Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Akali players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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