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Cho'Gath Build

Top Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 35,512 gamesUpdated

50.2%win rate1.6%pick8.2%ban

Who counters Cho'Gath

Every Top matchup for Cho'Gath, ranked →

How to build Cho'Gath

Plated Steelcaps→Heartsteel→Thornmail→Unending Despair

Plated Steelcaps → Heartsteel → Thornmail → Unending Despair

57.0% win rate 8% of games 1,860 games
RunesDominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate HunterSorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity41% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport67%
Skills
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Rupture
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Feral Scream
39101213
Vorpal Spikes
14578
Feast
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Cho'Gath build →
50.2%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.0% over 88,305 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.2% over 35,512 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.0%at Emerald+
1.6%pick rate
8.2%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
46.4%under 22 min
52.1%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 30–35m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitT Cho'GathvsSett champion portraitT Sett
8 / 10 / 12

Build

Mercury's Treads|Heartsteel→Hollow Radiance→Thornmail→Unending Despair

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

EQWEEREQEQRQQWWRWW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitT Cho'GathvsK'Sante champion portraitT K'Sante
5 / 7 / 2

Build

Boots of Swiftness|Hollow Radiance→Heartsteel

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

EQWEEREQEQRQQWW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Cho'Gath champion portraitT Cho'GathvsIllaoi champion portraitT Illaoi
3 / 3 / 1

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Imperial Mandate

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQWQWRWWE

Runes

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

Most popular 49.6% win rate · 41% of games · 13,363 games
DominationHail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate Hunter
SorceryAxiom ArcanistCelerity
Shards Adaptive Force · Move Speed · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.1% win rate · 19% of games · 6,126 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishConditioningOvergrowth
InspirationApproach VelocityMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport67%49.9%24,791 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite26%50.9%9,570 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps48%Mercury's Treads28%Boots of Swiftness20%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 49.4% win rate

Cho'Gath build

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

  1. Heartsteel1st
  2. Thornmail2nd
  3. Hollow Radiance3rd
2% of games that reach a third item take this path52.4% win rate542 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Cho'Gath →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 36,324 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
47% · 49.6% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
28% · 51.4% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
20% · 54.2% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 34.9% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 49.0% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
1% · 47.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Heartsteel+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 33.9% win rate · 1,074 games
  2. Heartsteel›Thornmail+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 38.5% win rate · 836 games
  3. Heartsteel+Mercury's Treads1% of games · 33.9% win rate · 540 games
  4. Heartsteel›Hollow Radiance+Mercury's Treads1% of games · 44.0% win rate · 416 games
  5. Heartsteel›Sunfire Aegis+Plated Steelcaps1% of games · 46.6% win rate · 401 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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