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.
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
The Cho'Gath Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xin Zhao helps Cho'Gath perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Xin Zhao, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Xin Zhao doesn't help cover 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 Xin Zhao on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Cho'Gath plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Cho'Gath during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Cho'Gath that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical companion for Cho'Gath. By being on the same side as Cho'Gath, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 50.0%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Cho'Gath and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Cho'Gath. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Xin Zhao comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Cho'Gath players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by pairing Cho'Gath and Xin Zhao together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Cho'Gath to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Cho'Gath and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath used at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average winrate of 50.0% helping carry Xin Zhao with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating 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 picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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