Cho'Gath with Illaoi
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Illaoi
based on 552 Cho'Gath with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Core Cho'Gath Items
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Cho'Gath Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Illaoi helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cho'Gath plays on the same team as Illaoi, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This change may signal that Illaoi doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Illaoi.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Illaoi on the same side, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Illaoi does a decent job of covering Cho'Gath in teamfights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Illaoi
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Cho'Gath that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Illaoi is a good companion for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same side as Cho'Gath, she raises their win rate by 1.2% to 50.7%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Cho'Gath and Illaoi that results in them performing better together than alone.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players don't need to be cautious when lining up Illaoi teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Cho'Gath players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Cho'Gath and Illaoi together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of utility. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Illaoi ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to synergize with Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Cho'Gath and Illaoi synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Illaoi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Illaoi with Cho'Gath are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.