Cho'Gath with Swain
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Swain
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Cho'Gath Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Swain
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Cho'Gath Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Cho'Gath is an ally to Swain, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Swain does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played together with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Swain.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Swain on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Swain does a poor job of protecting Cho'Gath during team fights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Swain
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Swain?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Cho'Gath that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Swain is a very typical companion for Cho'Gath. By being on the same side as Cho'Gath, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 50.3%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Cho'Gath and Swain that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means you need to be cautious when finding Swain comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Cho'Gath players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Cho'Gath and Swain together, you may not be granting your team much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to synergize with Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Cho'Gath and Swain synergy build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 50.3% when playing alongside Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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