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Cho'Gath Build

Bot Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 770 gamesUpdated

45.3%win rate0.0%pick8.2%ban

Who counters Cho'Gath

How to build Cho'Gath

Boots of Swiftness→Hextech Rocketbelt→Riftmaker→Dead Man's Plate

Boots of Swiftness → Hextech Rocketbelt → Riftmaker → Dead Man's Plate

32.5% win rate 7% of games 40 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate HunterSorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity50% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite27%
Skills
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Rupture
14578
Feral Scream
39101113
Vorpal Spikes
214151617
Feast
612
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Cho'Gath build →

Best supports for Cho'Gath

Who Cho'Gath has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst supports for Cho'Gath

Who Cho'Gath has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

45.3%win rate
Patch 26.20: 48.5% over 1,973 gamesPatch 26.21: 45.3% over 770 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
42.1%at Emerald+
0.0%pick rate
8.2%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 2 last patch
63.5%under 22 min
42.7%over 32 min

Cho'Gath Bot gets worse as the elo rises. 45.3% across Silver and above, but 42.1% once you look at Emerald and up. Sites that only sample high elo will show you the second number. Both are real; which one applies depends on the games you are actually playing.

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.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitB Cho'Gath+Leona champion portraitS LeonavsMiss Fortune champion portraitB Miss Fortune+Tahm Kench champion portraitS Tahm Kench
16 / 4 / 6

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Hextech Rocketbelt→Blackfire Torch→Imperial Mandate→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWWRWEEE
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitB Cho'Gath+Jax champion portraitS JaxvsTristana champion portraitB Tristana+Nautilus champion portraitS Nautilus
3 / 2 / 0

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Hextech Rocketbelt→Blackfire Torch

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QEQWQRQWQWWRW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitB Cho'Gath+Pantheon champion portraitS PantheonvsAurelion Sol champion portraitB Aurelion Sol+Pyke champion portraitS Pyke
11 / 9 / 10

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Hextech Rocketbelt→Luden's Echo→Force of Nature→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWWRWEEER

Runes

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

Most popular 40.1% win rate · 50% of games · 294 games
DominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity
Shards Adaptive Force · Move Speed · Health Scaling
Runner up 45.8% win rate · 20% of games · 118 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
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite27%44.5%218 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport27%46.3%216 games

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

Boots
Boots of Swiftness39%Plated Steelcaps25%Mercury's Treads19%
Boots of Swiftness most often · 44.0% win rate

Cho'Gath build

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

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt1st
  2. Riftmaker2nd
  3. Dead Man's Plate3rd
5% of games that reach a third item take this path24.2% win rate33 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Cho'Gath →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 802 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
37% · 44.1% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
24% · 44.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
18% · 50.7% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
13% · 44.4% win rate
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. The best and worst supports are ranked the same way, against Cho'Gath's average instead of 50%.

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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