Malzahar with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Malzahar and Cho'Gath
based on 2,290 Malzahar with Cho'Gath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Cho'Gath
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar 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, Malzahar 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 decrease shows that Cho'Gath helps Malzahar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Malzahar is paired with Cho'Gath, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Cho'Gath helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Malzahar in team fights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Cho'Gath
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no one best champion pairing for Malzahar that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical ally for Malzahar. By playing on the same team as Malzahar, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Malzahar and Cho'Gath that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Cho'Gath comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Malzahar and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of attack damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Malzahar in order to work well with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Malzahar and Cho'Gath synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Void Staff, and Liandry's Torment. When Malzahar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Malzahar had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Cho'Gath with Malzahar are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.