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Official Strategy
Playing with Cho'Gath
- When you attack with
Vorpal Nails, try to position yourself in such a way that you can kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
- If you have a hard time devouring champions, try eating minions until you are bigger.
- Use
Breaking over bugs along with
Carnivore is a good way to get Life and Mana.
Playing against Cho'Gath
- Buying some health items reduces the chances that
Cho'Gath kill you quickly.
- Concentrate on preventing
Cho'Gath reaches its maximum size, or has it retrieved after killing it.
Rupture has a cloud of smoke that indicates the area where it will hit. Try to be attentive to her to avoid
Cho'Gath can combine his abilities.
Use of Skills
Carnivore allows Cho'Gath to maintain his life and mana, making him a great solo down the line. Although, to be clear, the mana restoration is quite low - since it takes 4 waves of minions to be able to pay the use of
Breaking off.
- Kill omens of
Yorick's is affected by
Carnivore.
- Kill omens of
- The powerful disruption of
Rupture and the fact that none of the skills of
Cho'Gath has reduced cooldown on leveling up making the cooldown reduction highly valuable. Place
Break in the path of mobile enemies, as it is a delayed ability.
- Its backward nature and good CC can be used to your advantage as it can disrupt deadly suppression endings like
Warwick's Infinite Oppression and
Infernal Grip of Malzahar, so if you can anticipate when they will be used. This is really powerful against the ultimate
Infinite Oppression since it is a common gank starter, then you can interrupt that by placing
Break under you.
- Its backward nature and good CC can be used to your advantage as it can disrupt deadly suppression endings like
Wild Scream is a strong AoE / silence damage ability, especially in conjunction with
Breaking off. Due to the fact that your basic attacks are melee, you can use first
Breakout to blast the target up, then get close enough and try to silence them with
Scream Wild, preventing their escape or act of retaliation. Due to the great power of the slowdown
Rupture, unlikely to be out of basic attack range before silence expires, allowing you to finish them off with your ultimate.
Devour if possible.
- By the way, if you try to use
Wild Scream in the opposite direction you are moving will often be thrown at a bad angle and that will be counter-productive.
- Having at least one level
Vorpal Spikes is a great way to farm minions due to linear splash damage, this is good to activate
Carnivorous.
Vorpal Nails and
Carnivore allow
Cho'Gath junglear.
- Sometimes it may be a good idea to disable
Vorpal Spikes to prevent you from pushing your line and also be open to enemy ganks. If you don't disable this ability while attacking a turret, an enemy champion can stand behind the turret and cause you to hit them due to
Vorpal Spikes deal area of effect damage, causing the turret to start attacking you.
- If you find it difficult to finish off with
Devour champions, try to eat minions until you are older, as the true damage you deal exceeds the health of most minions. It is recommended to get 6 stacks first by finishing minions with
Devour and after that you could use your ult to finish off champions, since the damage to minions is significantly higher (particularly in the early-mid game, since
Devour has a base damage of 1000 to minions, regardless of the level of
Devour).
- If you are looking to push the line faster, it is best to use
Devour on a gunner minion to give them an instant kill as they are the hardest for your little minions to kill. However, keep in mind that if you have 0 Ability Power, the minion's maximum health could be more than 1000 after 12 minutes of play, avoiding getting a charge of
Devour.
- If you are looking to push the line faster, it is best to use
- A red circle will appear on champions who die when used on them
Devour.
Cho'Gath can be a great pusher. Use
Rupture to kill melee minions, and
Wild Scream to kill minions from a distance, to kill minion gunner use
Devour if necessary,
Vorpal Spikes help take down the missing minions. Nevertheless,
Cho'Gath is very vulnerable if ambushed in enemy territory.
Build usage
- Buying a
Doran's Ring along with mana regen masteries allows spamming of
Rupture and
Feral Scream without risk of mana starvation, in addition to allowing him to gain health with
Carnivore.
- Another good starting item is a
Crystalline Flask allowing
Cho'Gath to stay in lane along with
Carnivore.
- An early
Catalyst the Protector will grant
Cho'Gath an enormous amount of staying power in lane.
Rod of Ages provides hefty mana, health, and ability power which scales well with
Cho'Gath's high base damage.
- If your team has a tank already,
Cho'Gath can switch to an offtank ability power build in order to do more damage. Since
Feast already increases
Cho'Gath's maximum health, he will still be difficult to take down.
- Buying a
Guardian Angel will make
Cho'Gath very hard to kill if he stacks
Feast. Also,
Out of
Cho'Gath knock-up and slow will help you run after being revived.
- Getting damage mitigation (Armor and Magic resistance) instead of Health is a good idea, since
Feast already grants a hefty amount of health.
- Items such as
Abyssal Scepter are excellent if you want Ability Power, as they increase resistances as well.
- Items such as
- Since
feast de
Cho'Gath deals true damage to champions as well as minions, a caster build on
Cho'Gath can allow him to deal extreme damage to single targets and can easily execute unaware enemies especially late-game with his high amounts of AP.
- Investing in cooldown reduction items such as
Glacial Shroud early allows more frequent use of his ultimate ability to build
Feast stacks quickly and/or to threaten enemy champions with its high burst damage more often.
- Investing in cooldown reduction items such as
Rylai's Crystal Scepter is not as effective as it may be, as all his basic abilities deal area of effect damage, and his longest-ranged ability,
Rupture, already includes a knock-up and a large slow. However, as
Vorpal Spikes is added to all his basic attacks, it could force his opponents to use their movement abilities to get out of his melee range only to be caught up by
Break.