Zac with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Zac and Cho'Gath
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Zac Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Zac with Cho'Gath
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Cho'Gath helps Zac perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zac is paired with Cho'Gath, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Cho'Gath does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played together with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Zac plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Cho'Gath does a decent job of covering Zac in teamfights.
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Is Zac better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no ideal companion for Zac that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Cho'Gath is a terrible ally for Zac. By being on the same side as Zac, he decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 48.6%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Zac and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a much lower diffuclty than Zac. That means Zac players don't need to be very careful when arranging Cho'Gath allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zac and Cho'Gath together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to work well with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Zac and Cho'Gath synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Zac combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 48.6% helping carry Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% winrate overall.
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