Cho'Gath with Pyke
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Pyke
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Cho'Gath Pyke Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Pyke
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Pyke
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 Pyke Will Play
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
Cho'Gath Pyke Synergy Stats
How to Play with Pyke as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Pyke synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pyke, 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 Pyke. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Pyke helps Cho'Gath perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Pyke, he gets a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Pyke supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played with Pyke on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Pyke.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Pyke on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Pyke does a poor job of covering Cho'Gath in team fights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Pyke
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Pyke?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Cho'Gath that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Pyke is a very typical ally for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 48.7%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Cho'Gath and Pyke that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Pyke has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means you should be very careful when arranging Pyke comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Cho'Gath players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Cho'Gath and Pyke together, you probably will not be giving your team very much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Pyke ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Cho'Gath in order to pair well with Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Cho'Gath and Pyke synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Pyke than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 48.7% helping carry Pyke with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Cho'Gath players should take 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 runes players chose for Cho'Gath and Pyke pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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