Cho'Gath vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Cho'Gath
based on 1,720 Cho'Gath vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cho'Gath vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Cho'Gath vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Cho'Gath versus Illaoi counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Illaoi..
Cho'Gath normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Illaoi?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually wins when taking on Illaoi, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes a good counter to Illaoi.
While Cho'Gath does have a higher win rate compared to Illaoi, when on opposite teams, Cho'Gath also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Cho'Gath into Illaoi.
Additionally, Cho'Gath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Illaoi matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Cho'Gath is a decent counter for Illaoi. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Cho'Gath against Illaoi.
Other Champion Matchups Against Cho'Gath
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to counter Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Cho'Gath versus Illaoi build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Illaoi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average win rate of 52.0% battling Illaoi with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Illaoi as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Cho'Gath vs Illaoi battles, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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