Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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 Orianna Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Orianna sees a large worsening in her 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 Orianna perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna tries to synergize with Cho'Gath, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This difference may indicate that Cho'Gath does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Cho'Gath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Orianna during team fights.
There is no top companion for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Cho'Gath is a very bad companion for Orianna. By being on the same side as Orianna, he decreases their win rate by -4.1% to 43.4%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Orianna and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Cho'Gath comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Orianna players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Orianna and Cho'Gath together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Orianna and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 43.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Orianna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Cho'Gath with Orianna are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.