Cho'Gath with Akshan
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Akshan
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Cho'Gath Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Akshan
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.
Advice to Understand How Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Cho'Gath Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Cho'Gath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akshan helps Cho'Gath perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath is an ally to Akshan, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This could signal that Akshan provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akshan.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Akshan on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Cho'Gath in team fights.
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no ideal synergy for Cho'Gath that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Akshan is a below average companion for Cho'Gath. By being on the same team as Cho'Gath, they drops their win rate by -1.6% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Cho'Gath and Akshan that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Akshan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Cho'Gath and Akshan together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Cho'Gath in order to work well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Cho'Gath and Akshan synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Akshan than with many other common builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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