Graves with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Graves and Cho'Gath
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Graves Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Graves with Cho'Gath
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Advice to Understand How Cho'Gath Will Play
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.
Graves Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Graves in LoL
The Graves Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Graves sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Graves perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Cho'Gath, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Cho'Gath helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Cho'Gath 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 synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical teammate for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 50.3%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Graves and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be cautious when finding Cho'Gath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Graves players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Graves and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be granting your side much support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to work well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Graves and Cho'Gath synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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