Kennen with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Kennen and Cho'Gath
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Kennen Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Kennen vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kennen and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Kennen with Cho'Gath
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
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.
Kennen Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Kennen in LoL
The Kennen 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, Kennen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Kennen perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kennen is an ally to Cho'Gath, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Cho'Gath helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kennen is played with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Kennen plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Kennen in teamfights.
Synergies between Kennen and Cho'Gath
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Is Kennen better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no perfect synergy for Kennen that will always be his top ally. However, Cho'Gath is a very bad companion for Kennen. By locking into the same side as Kennen, he drops their win rate by -3.1% to 45.5%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Kennen and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a greater difficulty than Kennen. That means Kennen players need to be careful when finding Cho'Gath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Kennen players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kennen and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kennen in order to work well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kennen and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Kennen combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kennen had an average winrate of 45.5% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Kennen players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.5% winrate overall.
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