MOBA Champion

Cho'Gath Build

The Best Runes, Items, and Advice to Dominate Your Competition

LoL Champion

Cho'Gath

502,985 LoL Matches Analyzed

Stats Build Counters

Summary

Our Cho'Gath builds come out of our examination of 502,985 recently ranked Cho'Gath matches. Only the highest winrate Cho'Gath builds that are also commonly used are recommended. Because we have so many games in our database, we are very sure that we can produce high quality builds to help you win your next match!

For more focused build advice and strategies, please take a look at our tips farther down on the page. Additionally, to see the top Cho'Gath build designed for a different skill level, please select a different skill tier from the dropdown above. The proposed Cho'Gath builds will update to characterize that division’s meta.

Best Cho'Gath Runes

If you are playing a varied enemy team composition, you should really consider grabbing him the Grasp of the Undying, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes. In recent games, he won the greatest percentage of his games when equiped with these runes. However, if you are fighting a different enemy team composition, such as an AP centric or a tank focused team, you should instead look below to find the best Cho'Gath runes to win your particular match.

Overall

Grasp of the Undying Rune Grasp of the Undying
Font of Life Rune Font of Life
Bone Plating Rune Bone Plating
Overgrowth Rune Overgrowth
Manaflow Band Rune Manaflow Band
Transcendence Rune Transcendence
Versus Selected Team Comp
Grasp of the Undying Rune Grasp of the Undying
Demolish Rune Demolish
Bone Plating Rune Bone Plating
Overgrowth Rune Overgrowth
Manaflow Band Rune Manaflow Band
Gathering Storm Rune Gathering Storm

Best Items for Your Cho'Gath Build

The most critical items to include in your Cho'Gath build include: Frostfire Gauntlet, Warmog's Armor, Frozen Heart, and Dead Man's Plate. Furthermore, as with our rune suggestions, you can also find quality, focused, Cho'Gath item builds below for the specific enemy team composition you are battling in your current match. Those who included these items in their gear had a better winrate than those who worked towards other builds for Cho'Gath.

LoL Item Frostfire GauntletLoL Item Warmog's ArmorLoL Item Frozen HeartLoL Item Dead Man's Plate

vs AD Heavy Teams

LoL Item Sunfire AegisLoL Item ThornmailLoL Item Frozen HeartLoL Item Dead Man's Plate

vs AP Heavy Teams

LoL Item Frostfire GauntletLoL Item Spirit VisageLoL Item Warmog's ArmorLoL Item Force of Nature

vs CC Heavy Teams

LoL Item Sunfire AegisLoL Item Warmog's ArmorLoL Item Gargoyle StoneplateLoL Item Force of Nature

vs Tanky Teams

LoL Item Frostfire GauntletLoL Item ThornmailLoL Item Dead Man's PlateLoL Item Force of Nature

Guide to Playing with Cho'Gath

  • 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.