Cho'Gath with Tahm Kench
How to Synergize Cho'Gath and Tahm Kench
based on 1,119 Cho'Gath with Tahm Kench pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Cho'Gath Tahm Kench Synergy Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Tahm Kench Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Cho'Gath and Tahm Kench
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath with Tahm Kench
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.
Advice to Understand How Tahm Kench Will Play
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.
Cho'Gath Tahm Kench Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tahm Kench as Cho'Gath in LoL
The Cho'Gath Tahm Kench synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tahm Kench, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Cho'Gath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Tahm Kench. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Tahm Kench helps Cho'Gath perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Cho'Gath tries to synergize with Tahm Kench, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Tahm Kench does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Cho'Gath is played together with Tahm Kench on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Tahm Kench. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Tahm Kench.
Additionally, when Cho'Gath plays with Tahm Kench on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Tahm Kench does a decent job of covering Cho'Gath in team fights.
Synergies between Cho'Gath and Tahm Kench
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Is Cho'Gath better when played alongside Tahm Kench?
There is no perfect ally for Cho'Gath that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Tahm Kench is a decent ally for Cho'Gath. By locking into the same team as Cho'Gath, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 52.1%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Cho'Gath and Tahm Kench that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Tahm Kench has a lower difficulty than Cho'Gath. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Tahm Kench allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Cho'Gath players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Cho'Gath and Tahm Kench together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Tahm Kench ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Cho'Gath in order to work well with Tahm Kench during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Cho'Gath and Tahm Kench synergy build consist of Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Cho'Gath included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Tahm Kench than with many other typical builds. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 52.1% when playing alongside Tahm Kench with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Cho'Gath and Tahm Kench pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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