Cho'Gath with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Vel'Koz
based on 1,578 Cho'Gath with Vel'Koz pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Cho'Gath Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Cho'Gath Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vel'Koz helps Cho'Gath perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Vel'Koz, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Vel'Koz does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played with Vel'Koz on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Vel'Koz on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Cho'Gath in teamfights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Vel'Koz
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no perfect ally for Cho'Gath that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Vel'Koz is a decent companion for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, he increases their win rate by 1.1% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Cho'Gath and Vel'Koz that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means you need to be very careful when finding Vel'Koz allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Cho'Gath players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Cho'Gath and Vel'Koz together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Vel'Koz ally, you need to 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 anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Cho'Gath
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Cho'Gath Players
How We Calculated Our Cho'Gath Vel'Koz Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to get in your Cho'Gath and Vel'Koz synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing alongside Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Vel'Koz with Cho'Gath are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.