Pyke with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Pyke and Cho'Gath
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Pyke Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Pyke and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Pyke with Cho'Gath
The Tap version of Bone Skewer is much faster and deals additional damage.
A lot of your agressive spells are also your escapes. Make sure you always have a plan to get out of the fight.
Hitting an enemy with the Hold version of Bone Skewer will always pull them the same distance. Use it in melee range to throw targets behind you.
Pyke is very fragile so don't be afraid to temporarily run from a fight. You can regenerate a significant amount of health from Gift of the Drowned Ones when enemies can't see you.
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.
Pyke Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Pyke in LoL
The Pyke 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, Pyke 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 fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Pyke perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Pyke plays on the same team as Cho'Gath, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Cho'Gath helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Pyke is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Moreover, when Pyke plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Pyke during teamfights.
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Is Pyke better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no one best champion pairing for Pyke that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Cho'Gath is a very typical companion for Pyke. By playing on the same team as Pyke, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 48.7%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Pyke and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Pyke. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Cho'Gath teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Pyke and Cho'Gath together, you will not be granting your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Pyke to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Pyke and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Umbral Glaive, Edge of Night, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Pyke incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Cho'Gath than with most other common builds. In fact, Pyke had an average winrate of 48.7% helping carry Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Ingenious Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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