Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Cho'Gath helps Lissandra perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Cho'Gath provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Lissandra during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Lissandra that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a below average companion for Lissandra. By being on the same team as Lissandra, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 48.3%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Lissandra and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be very careful when arranging Cho'Gath comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Lissandra players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Lissandra and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to work well with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Lissandra and Cho'Gath synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Cho'Gath with Lissandra are displayed for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.