Your most important function as a support is to keep fragile allies safe. Keep Devour's range and cooldown in mind and position accordingly!
Consider carefully when to use Thick Skin's active. Sometimes shielding early to avoid further damage is good, but sometimes the healing is more beneficial.
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 Tahm Kench 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, Tahm Kench sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Tahm Kench perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tahm Kench is paired with Cho'Gath, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Cho'Gath does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Tahm Kench is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Tahm Kench plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Cho'Gath does a decent job of covering Tahm Kench in team fights.
There is no top ally for Tahm Kench that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Cho'Gath is a very typical teammate for Tahm Kench. By playing on the same side as Tahm Kench, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 52.1%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Tahm Kench and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Tahm Kench. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Cho'Gath comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Tahm Kench and Cho'Gath together, you will not be giving your team much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tahm Kench to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Tahm Kench and Cho'Gath synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Tahm Kench included at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tahm Kench boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.1% win rate overall.
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