Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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 Zyra 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, Zyra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Cho'Gath helps Zyra perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zyra is an ally to Cho'Gath, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Cho'Gath supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zyra is played together with Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Zyra plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Cho'Gath does a poor job of protecting Zyra during team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Zyra that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical ally for Zyra. By being on the same side as Zyra, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 52.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Zyra and Cho'Gath that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Zyra. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Cho'Gath allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zyra and Cho'Gath together, you will not be providing your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Cho'Gath ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Zyra to pair well with Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Zyra and Cho'Gath synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Zyra combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 52.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Cho'Gath with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% winrate overall.
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