Riven with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Riven and Cho'Gath
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Riven Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Riven with Cho'Gath
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Riven in LoL
The Riven 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, Riven sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Riven perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is paired with Cho'Gath, she gets a small decrease in her complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Cho'Gath doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with 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 alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Riven plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Riven during teamfights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no one best ally for Riven that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Cho'Gath is a not very good ally for Riven. By playing on the same team as Riven, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Riven and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a much lower diffuclty than Riven. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Cho'Gath comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by bringing Riven and Cho'Gath together, you will not be giving your other teammates much AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Riven to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Riven and Cho'Gath synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Riven bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Riven players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Riven and Cho'Gath pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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