Amumu with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Amumu and Cho'Gath
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Amumu Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Cho'Gath
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Amumu perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Cho'Gath helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Amumu during teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Amumu that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Cho'Gath is a very typical companion for Amumu. By playing on the same side as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -0.8% to 48.2%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Amumu and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a greater difficulty than Amumu. That means Amumu players need to be careful when lining up Cho'Gath comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Amumu and Cho'Gath together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Amumu in order to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Amumu and Cho'Gath synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu had an average winrate of 48.2% helping carry Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Amumu players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Cho'Gath with Amumu are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.