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Cho'Gath Build

Jungle God Tier

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 67,377 gamesUpdated

52.4%win rate3.1%pick8.2%ban

Who counters Cho'Gath

Every Jungle matchup for Cho'Gath, ranked →

How to build Cho'Gath

Boots of Swiftness→Heartsteel→Dead Man's Plate→Force of Nature

Boots of Swiftness → Heartsteel → Dead Man's Plate → Force of Nature

56.4% win rate 14% of games 6,794 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate HunterSorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity55% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite98%
Skills
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Rupture
214151718
Feral Scream
89101213
Vorpal Spikes
13457
Feast
61116
StartMosstomper SeedlingHealth PotionMosstomper Seedling, Health Potion
Full Cho'Gath build →
52.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 52.2% over 168,947 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.4% over 67,377 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
52.3%at Emerald+
3.1%pick rate
8.2%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
49.5%under 22 min
54.3%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitJ Cho'GathvsKayn champion portraitJ Kayn
9 / 3 / 14

Build

Mosstomper SeedlingBoots of Swiftness|Heartsteel→Dead Man's Plate→Unending Despair→Kaenic Rookern

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

EQWEEREQEQRQQWWRWW
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitJ Cho'GathvsKindred champion portraitJ Kindred
8 / 3 / 5

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingBoots of Swiftness|Hextech Rocketbelt→Riftmaker→Dead Man's Plate→Warmog's Armor

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EQWEEREQEQRQQWWRWW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitJ Cho'GathvsKarthus champion portraitJ Karthus
3 / 4 / 3

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingBoots of Swiftness|Hextech Rocketbelt→Dead Man's Plate

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EQEWEREQEQRQ

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 51.9% win rate · 55% of games · 36,552 games
DominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity
Shards Adaptive Force · Move Speed · Health Scaling
Runner up 53.9% win rate · 22% of games · 14,605 games
DominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
InspirationApproach VelocityMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Move Speed · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 98% of games, 52.4% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Boots of Swiftness56%Plated Steelcaps21%Mercury's Treads21%
Boots of Swiftness most often · 54.1% win rate
Jungle pet
Gustwalker Hatchling60%
6 of 10 recent games started Gustwalker Hatchling

Cho'Gath build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Dead Man's Plate1st
  2. Heartsteel2nd
  3. Force of Nature3rd
8% of games that reach a third item take this path57.4% win rate3,994 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Cho'Gath →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 68,803 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
55% · 54.2% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
21% · 50.6% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
20% · 51.0% win rate
BootsBoots
1% · 38.6% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 53.5% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
1% · 45.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Dead Man's Plate›Heartsteel+Boots of Swiftness4% of games · 43.8% win rate · 2,474 games
  2. Heartsteel+Boots of Swiftness3% of games · 44.7% win rate · 2,258 games
  3. Dead Man's Plate›Heartsteel›Force of Nature+Boots of Swiftness2% of games · 55.5% win rate · 1,681 games
  4. Heartsteel›Dead Man's Plate+Boots of Swiftness2% of games · 48.7% win rate · 1,525 games
  5. Heartsteel›Dead Man's Plate›Force of Nature+Boots of Swiftness2% of games · 57.7% win rate · 1,038 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Cho'Gath against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Cho'Gath's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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