League of Legends Champion Cho'Gath Cho'Gath is in the a tier of champions

Cho'Gath

Tank Mage
Cho'Gath is a tank Role tank
Difficulty Average
Power Spike Mid-Game
Carnivore ability p
Rupture ability q
Feral Scream ability w
Vorpal Spikes ability e
Feast ability r
Stats Build Counters
Runes
Synergies
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Cho'Gath Build

based on 21,062 matches
Win Rate
49.4 %
Pick Rate
3.4 %
Ban Rate
1 %

How We Come Up with Our Cho'Gath Builds

We process over 1 Million League of Legends games every day to bring you the most accurate Cho'Gath build so you can destroy your enemies and improve you win rate. We've broken down our Cho'Gath builds by rank, position, and enemy team type, so you can find the most accurate set of Cho'Gath core items and runes for any situation.

Cho'Gath Build Summary

Cho'Gath is a a decent top lane champ in League of Legends. His best rune sets are Resolve Precision. Adding the specific runes shown below into your Cho'Gath build will give you the additional stats to guarantee he plays well through the laning phase of the match and into the late game. Cho'Gath players should focus on building up his e ability first.

Best Build for Cho'Gath

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionTear of the Goddess

Early Items

~5 Mins
Null-Magic MantleBami's Cinder

Core Cho'Gath Items

~22 Mins
Frostfire GauntletFimbulwinterDemonic EmbraceMercury's Treads

Optional Items

Warmog's ArmorGargoyle StoneplateDead Man's PlateRabadon's Deathcap

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Cho'Gath to level up e
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Second ability for Cho'Gath to level up q
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Last skill for Cho'Gath to max out w

Runes

Resolve Grasp of the Undying DemolishConditioningOvergrowth
Precision Presence of MindLegend: Tenacity
AttackSpeed Armor HealthScaling
Cho'Gath's passive ability p
Cho'Gath q ability q
Cho'Gath w ability w
Cho'Gath e ability e
Cho'Gath's ultimate ability r
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Cho'Gath Matchups Overview

Cho'Gath is Weak Against

Olaf Olaf 42.9% winrate Akshan Akshan 44.4% winrate Irelia Irelia 44.5% winrate Fiora Fiora 45.2% winrate

Cho'Gath is Strong Against

Gragas Gragas 57.6% winrate Gnar Gnar 56.1% winrate Pantheon Pantheon 55.4% winrate Riven Riven 55.2% winrate

Top Synergies by Role

Zyra Zyra + 54.3% 617 Games Kog'Maw Kog'Maw + 54.9% 286 Games Heimerdinger Heimerdinger + 55.1% 265 Games Olaf Olaf + 57.4% 183 Games

More Gameplay Tips for Cho'Gath Players

Tips and Tricks

Cho'Gath's utility comes from AOE and CC skills; Rupture, Feral Scream, and Vorpal Spikes all serve those purposes.

Use Feast to last hit large monsters and enemy champions to gain Feast stacks and gain bonus health.

Additional Cho'Gath Build Insights

League of Legends Cho'Gath players may find him to be a confusing champ to build out properly. You'll notice that his build changes when he is up against either generic or highly focused team comps, showing you shouldn't take the same Cho'Gath build every round of League of Legends

The best items to include in your champ's build are: Frostfire Gauntlet, Fimbulwinter, and Demonic Embrace. Players who included these pieces in their setups had a better win rate than those who used other item builds for Cho'Gath. Similarly, if you are playing a well-mixed enemy team arrangement, you should strongly consider getting Cho'Gath the Resolve, and Precision runes. In recent matches, he won the greatest percentage of his matches when equipped with these runes.

We came up with our Cho'Gath build recommendations by analyzing 21,062 recently ranked League of Legends rounds with him selected. We only recommend the top winrate Cho'Gath builds that were built by ranked LoL players enough times for us to suggest them. With so many games in our dataset, we are quite confident in our suggested builds.