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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Cho'Gath Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Orianna helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath is paired with Orianna, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Orianna does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played alongside Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Orianna.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Orianna on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Orianna does a poor job of covering Cho'Gath in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Cho'Gath that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Orianna is a terrible ally for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, she drops their win rate by -6.1% to 43.4%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Cho'Gath and Orianna that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means Cho'Gath players should be cautious when arranging Orianna comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Cho'Gath players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Cho'Gath and Orianna together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough attack damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Orianna teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold 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 truly master Cho'Gath in order to pair well with Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Cho'Gath and Orianna synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Orianna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average winrate of 43.4% helping carry Orianna with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Orianna with Cho'Gath are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.