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.
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
The Cho'Gath Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nunu & Willump helps Cho'Gath perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cho'Gath is paired with Nunu & Willump, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may signal that Nunu & Willump supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nunu & Willump does a poor job of protecting Cho'Gath during team fights.
There is no one best companion for Cho'Gath that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a not very good teammate for Cho'Gath. By playing on the same team as Cho'Gath, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 46.8%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Cho'Gath and Nunu & Willump that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a lower difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nunu & Willump allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Cho'Gath players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Cho'Gath and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Cho'Gath and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average winrate of 46.8% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Cho'Gath players should use 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 rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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