Zed with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Zed and Cho'Gath
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Zed Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Zed with Cho'Gath
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Cho'Gath helps Zed perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Cho'Gath, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Cho'Gath helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Cho'Gath
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Is Zed better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zed that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical teammate for Zed. By playing on the same team as Zed, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 47.9%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Zed and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Cho'Gath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Zed and Cho'Gath together, you will not be giving your team very much utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Zed in order to work well with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Zed and Cho'Gath synergy build include Edge of Night, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Cho'Gath with Zed are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.