Cho'Gath with Zed
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Zed
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Cho'Gath Zed Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Zed
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Cho'Gath Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Cho'Gath perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath is paired with Zed, he observes a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Zed provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Zed on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Cho'Gath during teamfights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Zed
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Cho'Gath that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Zed is a not very good companion for Cho'Gath. By being on the same team as Cho'Gath, he drops their win rate by -1.6% to 47.9%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Cho'Gath and Zed that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means you must be careful when finding Zed teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Cho'Gath and Zed together, you will not be providing your side very much crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed teammate, you should 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Cho'Gath in order to pair well with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Cho'Gath and Zed synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zed with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against 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 sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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