Cho'Gath with Bard
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Bard
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Cho'Gath Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Bard
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Cho'Gath Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Cho'Gath perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath plays on the same team as Bard, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Bard on the same team, 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 Bard.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Bard on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Cho'Gath in team fights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Bard
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Cho'Gath that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Bard is a great teammate for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, he increases their win rate by 3.4% to 52.9%. This shows that there is an important strategic relationship between Cho'Gath and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Cho'Gath. That means you need to be careful when arranging Bard teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Cho'Gath players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Cho'Gath and Bard together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Cho'Gath in order to synergize with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Cho'Gath and Bard synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest 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 rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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