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.
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.
The Cho'Gath Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, 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 Amumu. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Amumu, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Amumu helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Amumu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Amumu.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Amumu on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Amumu does a poor job of protecting Cho'Gath in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Cho'Gath that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Amumu is a relatively poor teammate for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 48.2%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Cho'Gath and Amumu that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Amumu has a lower difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players don't need to be cautious when lining up Amumu teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Cho'Gath and Amumu together, you probably will not be granting your team very much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Amumu teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Cho'Gath and Amumu synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Amumu than with most other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Cho'Gath players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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