Cho'Gath
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · KRBans, presence and fearless: Cho'Gath across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 7.7%picked in 1,408 of 18,189 games
- Ban
- 3.6%629 bans over 17,249 games, against 1.4% in soloQ
Amateur: 18,453 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR. SoloQ Master+: 337,103 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments4 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.DraftLengthBuild
- How to play itGrasp of the Undying, then Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, and Dead Man's Plate: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compCrowd control (CC) first: more CC than 99% of top laners.CC
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftFallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
What changes in tournaments?
4 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftPicked more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 0.9%
- SoloQ
- 0.7%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 3.5%
- SoloQ
- 1.4%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.6 min
- SoloQ
- 26.4 min
- BuildHeartsteel, Unending Despair, Jak'Sho, The Protean instead of Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, Dead Man's Plate
- Amateur
- 10%
- SoloQ
- 5%
How to play it?
Grasp of the Undying, then Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, and Dead Man's Plate: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesGrasp of the Undying50% · 2,429
SpellsFlash + Teleport70% · 3,407
SkillsEnot collected in soloQ- Hextech Rocketbelt
- Riftmaker
- Dead Man's Plate
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Crowd control (CC) first: more CC than 99% of top laners.
- Crowd control (CC)top1%2.3 · top laners: 0.8
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
- CC
Like other top laners
- Damage in mid game
- Damage in late game
- Gold at 15 min
- Gold at 20 min
- Absorbs damage
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
- Lets allies carry kills
- Team damage
What it is not
- No poke
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 21 in lane, 37 in mid game and 49 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, behind 62% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 21 of 100 among top laners541 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 37 of 100 among top laners836 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 49 of 100 among top laners1,078 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 27 of 100 among top laners-165 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 39 of 100 among top laners-21 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 59 of 100 among top laners1,052 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 71 of 100 among top laners55% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 29 of 100 among top laners25% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 52 of 100 among top lanersrank 52 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 99 of 100 among top laners2.3 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 48 of 100 among top laners20% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
Ban it or pick it?
Fallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+0.7%4,618 picks of 674,203ban 1.4% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.9%202 picks of 23,550ban 3.5% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.4%10 picks of 2,238bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
