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.
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
The Cho'Gath Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Irelia helps Cho'Gath perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Irelia, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Irelia 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 synergisticly with Irelia.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Irelia on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Cho'Gath in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Cho'Gath that will always be his ideal ally. However, Irelia is a good companion for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, she increases their win rate by 2.0% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Cho'Gath and Irelia that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players don't need to be careful when finding Irelia comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Cho'Gath players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Cho'Gath and Irelia together, you will not be giving your other teammates much support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to work well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Cho'Gath and Irelia synergy build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Irelia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Irelia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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