Cho'Gath vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Cho'Gath
based on 1,953 Cho'Gath vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cho'Gath vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Aphelios
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.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Cho'Gath vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Cho'Gath against Aphelios matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aphelios’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Cho'Gath normally has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually fairs equally well when playing against Aphelios, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Cho'Gath does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when they face off with one another, Cho'Gath also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Cho'Gath into Aphelios.
Furthermore, Cho'Gath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Aphelios matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Cho'Gath is a decent counter for Aphelios. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Cho'Gath against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Cho'Gath to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Cho'Gath versus Aphelios build consist of Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Aphelios than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Aphelios as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Cho'Gath vs Aphelios counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
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