Brand with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Brand and Cho'Gath
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Brand Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Brand with Cho'Gath
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Brand perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand is an ally to Cho'Gath, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Cho'Gath provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played together with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Brand during team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no one best synergy for Brand that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical companion for Brand. By being on the same team as Brand, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 50.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Brand and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means you must be careful when arranging Cho'Gath comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Brand players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Brand and Cho'Gath together, you will not be providing your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Brand to work well with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Brand and Cho'Gath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with most other typical builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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