Cho'Gath vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Cho'Gath
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Cho'Gath vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Malzahar
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.
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
Advice to Win Against Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Cho'Gath vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several vital Cho'Gath versus Malzahar counter statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Cho'Gath often has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Malzahar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when trying to fight Malzahar, with a 44.6% win rate. Therefore, Cho'Gath makes a bad counter to Malzahar.
While Cho'Gath does have a much lower win rate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Cho'Gath into Malzahar.
Furthermore, Cho'Gath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Cho'Gath is a trash counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cho'Gath against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Cho'Gath in order to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Malzahar. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Cho'Gath versus Malzahar build include Frostfire Gauntlet, Thornmail, and Frozen Heart. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Malzahar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 44.6% when countering Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Malzahar as Cho'Gath, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Cho'Gath vs Malzahar matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Cho'Gath are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.