Shen with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Shen and Cho'Gath
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Shen Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shen and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Shen with Cho'Gath
Leverage your Energy to get a long-term advantage over Mana users.
Keep an eye on allies and be ready to save them with your teleport.
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.
Shen Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Shen in LoL
The Shen 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, Shen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Cho'Gath helps Shen perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shen plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, he observes a measurable drop in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Cho'Gath does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shen is played with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Shen plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Cho'Gath does a decent job of protecting Shen in teamfights.
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Is Shen better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shen that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Cho'Gath is a not very good teammate for Shen. By locking into the same team as Shen, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Shen and Cho'Gath that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a greater difficulty than Shen. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Cho'Gath teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Shen and Cho'Gath together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shen to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Shen and Cho'Gath synergy build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Shen combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Cho'Gath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Shen had an average winrate of 48.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Shen and Cho'Gath pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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