Leona with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Leona and Cho'Gath
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Leona Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Leona with Cho'Gath
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Leona in LoL
The Leona Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Cho'Gath helps Leona perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, she observes a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Cho'Gath helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Leona during teamfights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no one best synergy for Leona that will no matter what be her ideal ally. However, overall, Cho'Gath is a below average ally for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 50.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Leona and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a greater difficulty than Leona. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Cho'Gath teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Leona and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Leona and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Leona and Cho'Gath pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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