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.
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
The Cho'Gath Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, 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 Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Cho'Gath perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Gnar, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Gnar does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Gnar 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 Gnar.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Gnar on the same team, he usually takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Gnar does a decent job of covering Cho'Gath during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Cho'Gath that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Gnar is a below average teammate for Cho'Gath. By playing on the same team as Cho'Gath, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 48.2%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Cho'Gath and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players need to be very careful when enlisting Gnar allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Cho'Gath players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Cho'Gath and Gnar together, you will not be giving your side a lot of crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to synergize with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Cho'Gath and Gnar synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Warmog's Armor. When Cho'Gath included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 48.2% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Cho'Gath players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Gnar with Cho'Gath are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.