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Cho'Gath Build

Mid Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 7,190 gamesUpdated

49.8%win rate0.3%pick8.2%ban

Who counters Cho'Gath

How to build Cho'Gath

Chainlaced Crushers→Hextech Rocketbelt→Riftmaker→Dead Man's Plate

Chainlaced Crushers → Hextech Rocketbelt → Riftmaker → Dead Man's Plate

57.3% win rate 7% of games 349 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate HunterSorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity49% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite57%
Skills
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Rupture
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Feral Scream
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Vorpal Spikes
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Feast
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StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Cho'Gath build →
49.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.1% over 19,057 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.8% over 7,190 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.2%at Emerald+
0.3%pick rate
8.2%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
48.4%under 22 min
50.9%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.

Loss 40–45m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitM Cho'GathvsYasuo champion portraitM Yasuo
15 / 11 / 6

Build

Swiftmarch|Hextech Rocketbelt→Heartsteel→Randuin's Omen→Riftmaker

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitM Cho'GathvsKarthus champion portraitM Karthus
6 / 0 / 4

Build

Armored Advance|Hextech Rocketbelt→Riftmaker

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWEEREWEWRWWQQ
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitM Cho'GathvsLux champion portraitM Lux
5 / 5 / 6

Build

Swiftmarch|Hextech Rocketbelt→Riftmaker→Thornmail

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 48.9% win rate · 49% of games · 2,964 games
DominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity
Shards Adaptive Force · Move Speed · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.9% win rate · 12% of games · 749 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 + Ignite57%49.4%4,256 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport29%50.2%2,137 games

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

Boots
Chainlaced Crushers38%Swiftmarch29%Armored Advance21%
Chainlaced Crushers most often · 49.0% 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
4% of games that reach a third item take this path53.6% win rate181 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Cho'Gath →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 7,401 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
36% · 49.2% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
29% · 51.3% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
20% · 50.6% win rate
Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
10% · 53.0% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 27.7% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
2% · 45.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Hextech Rocketbelt›Riftmaker+Swiftmarch2% of games · 48.8% win rate · 160 games
  2. Hextech Rocketbelt+Swiftmarch2% of games · 34.8% win rate · 112 games
  3. Hextech Rocketbelt›Riftmaker+Chainlaced Crushers1% of games · 43.7% win rate · 103 games
  4. Hextech Rocketbelt+Chainlaced Crushers1% of games · 28.1% win rate · 89 games
  5. Hextech Rocketbelt›Riftmaker›Dead Man's Plate+Swiftmarch1% of games · 56.2% win rate · 80 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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