Cho'Gath with Aphelios
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Aphelios
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Cho'Gath Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Cho'Gath Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Aphelios helps Cho'Gath perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Aphelios, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Aphelios doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Aphelios on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Cho'Gath in team fights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Aphelios
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no perfect companion for Cho'Gath that will always be his ideal ally. However, Aphelios is a very typical ally for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same side as Cho'Gath, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Cho'Gath and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players need to be cautious when lining up Aphelios allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Cho'Gath and Aphelios together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Cho'Gath and Aphelios synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Aphelios than with many other typical builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing alongside Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Cho'Gath players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Cho'Gath and Aphelios pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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