Skarner with Cho'Gath
How to Synergize Skarner and Cho'Gath
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Skarner Cho'Gath Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Cho'Gath
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner Cho'Gath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Cho'Gath as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner 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, Skarner sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Cho'Gath helps Skarner perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Skarner is paired with Cho'Gath, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Cho'Gath supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played with Cho'Gath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Cho'Gath
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Cho'Gath?
There is no ideal companion for Skarner that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a great companion for Skarner. By locking into the same team as Skarner, he increases their win rate by 4.2% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a very strong synergy between Skarner and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Skarner. That means Skarner players don't need to be careful when enlisting Cho'Gath allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Skarner players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Skarner and Cho'Gath together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much AD. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Cho'Gath ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Skarner to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Skarner and Cho'Gath synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with most other common builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 52.5% helping carry Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
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