Katarina vs Cho'Gath
How to Beat Cho'Gath as Katarina
based on 3,009 Katarina vs Cho'Gath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Cho'Gath Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cho'Gath as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Cho'Gath
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Cho'Gath
Focus on preventing Cho'Gath from reaching his max size.
Purchasing a few HP items decreases the chances of Cho'Gath killing you quickly.
Rupture has a smoke cloud indicating the area it will strike. Try to watch out for it to prevent Cho'Gath from being able to combo his abilities.
Katarina vs Cho'Gath Counter Stats
How to Counter Cho'Gath with Katarina in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Katarina vs. Cho'Gath counter stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Cho'Gath. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Cho'Gath. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Cho'Gath
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Who is Better, Katarina or Cho'Gath?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Cho'Gath, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Cho'Gath.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Cho'Gath, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Cho'Gathas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cho'Gath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Cho'Gath matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Cho'Gath. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Cho'Gath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often picks up a similar amount of CS as Cho'Gath. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Katarina versus Cho'Gath build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Cho'Gath than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 48.1% when playing against Cho'Gath with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Cho'Gath as Katarina, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Katarina vs Cho'Gath battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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