Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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 Nidalee 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, Nidalee 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 fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Nidalee perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, she sees a little increase in her complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Cho'Gath provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Cho'Gath does a decent job of protecting Nidalee during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Nidalee that will always be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a below average companion for Nidalee. By being on the same side as Nidalee, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 42.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Nidalee and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be careful when lining up Cho'Gath teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Nidalee and Cho'Gath together, you will not be providing your side enough crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to work well with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Nidalee and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 42.1% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Nidalee and Cho'Gath pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Cho'Gath with Nidalee are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.