Cho'Gath
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · All regionsBans, presence and fearless: Cho'Gath across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 9.7%picked in 2,706 of 27,986 games
- Ban
- 4.4%997 bans over 22,774 games, against 4.6% in soloQ
Amateur: 28,304 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR 65% · EUW 25% · NA 10%. SoloQ Master+: 951,671 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 tournaments3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.DraftLengthRunes
- How to play itHail of Blades, 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 draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftBanned less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 4.3%
- SoloQ
- 4.6%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.6 min
- SoloQ
- 27.8 min
- RunesGrasp of the Undying instead of Hail of Blades
- Amateur
- 56%
- SoloQ
- 52%
How to play it?
Hail of Blades, then Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, and Dead Man's Plate: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesHail of Blades52% · 13,378
SpellsFlash + Teleport68% · 17,590
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.
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.
- K'Sante10 games—SoloQ: 50.0% · 488 g
- Sion10 games—SoloQ: 52.1% · 520 g
- Camille9 games—SoloQ: 45.0% · 627 g
- Gragas9 games—SoloQ: 54.3% · 453 g
- Dr. Mundo8 games—SoloQ: 46.6% · 624 g
- Gnar8 games—SoloQ: 50.3% · 537 g
- Sett8 games—SoloQ: 48.5% · 534 g
- Ornn7 games—SoloQ: 46.5% · 663 g
- Shen7 games—SoloQ: 53.3% · 514 g
- Yone7 games—SoloQ: 48.1% · 1,061 g
- Mordekaiser6 games—SoloQ: 48.2% · 483 g
- Malphite5 games—SoloQ: 54.0% · 1,085 g
- Nasus5 games—SoloQ: 49.0% · 469 g
- Wukong17 games—SoloQ: 49.1% · 977 g
- Vi16 games—SoloQ: 53.4% · 534 g
- Jarvan IV14 games—SoloQ: 50.8% · 907 g
- Xin Zhao11 games—SoloQ: 50.6% · 320 g
- Viego9 games—SoloQ: 49.7% · 973 g
- Sylas8 games—SoloQ: 49.6% · 931 g
- Lee Sin7 games—SoloQ: 52.1% · 1,612 g
- Lillia7 games—SoloQ: 46.9% · 770 g
- Skarner6 games—SoloQ: 51.4% · 222 g
- Pantheon5 games—SoloQ: 53.4% · 116 g
- Trundle5 games—SoloQ: 43.3% · 97 g
- Viktor19 games—SoloQ: 48.3% · 1,180 g
- Syndra15 games—SoloQ: 50.2% · 1,175 g
- Ahri11 games—SoloQ: 47.9% · 1,223 g
- Sylas11 games—SoloQ: 53.7% · 968 g
- Aurora7 games—SoloQ: 50.3% · 453 g
- Galio7 games—SoloQ: 46.7% · 569 g
- Yone7 games—SoloQ: 47.9% · 970 g
- Hwei6 games—SoloQ: 49.8% · 576 g
- Mel6 games—SoloQ: 49.7% · 149 g
- LeBlanc5 games—SoloQ: 46.3% · 680 g
- Orianna5 games—SoloQ: 51.2% · 484 g
- Yunara17 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 1,982 g
- Caitlyn15 games—SoloQ: 49.4% · 1,402 g
- Kai'Sa15 games—SoloQ: 51.2% · 2,135 g
- Jhin14 games—SoloQ: 48.3% · 2,304 g
- Ezreal13 games—SoloQ: 53.9% · 1,307 g
- Jinx11 games—SoloQ: 48.5% · 1,772 g
- Xayah10 games—SoloQ: 50.3% · 782 g
- Ashe8 games—SoloQ: 53.0% · 647 g
- Zeri8 games—SoloQ: 47.4% · 916 g
- Lucian7 games—SoloQ: 48.7% · 926 g
- Sivir7 games—SoloQ: 46.2% · 520 g
- Tristana7 games—SoloQ: 48.2% · 1,473 g
- Draven5 games—SoloQ: 49.2% · 750 g
- Miss Fortune5 games—SoloQ: 48.8% · 565 g
- Milio16 games—SoloQ: 51.6% · 694 g
- Nautilus16 games—SoloQ: 53.0% · 1,479 g
- Braum14 games—SoloQ: 44.2% · 877 g
- Seraphine13 games—SoloQ: 48.8% · 685 g
- Lulu10 games—SoloQ: 51.2% · 1,790 g
- Rakan10 games—SoloQ: 49.3% · 724 g
- Karma8 games—SoloQ: 50.1% · 1,022 g
- Thresh8 games—SoloQ: 47.5% · 1,924 g
- Bard7 games—SoloQ: 51.7% · 800 g
- Leona7 games—SoloQ: 50.0% · 1,045 g
- Nami7 games—SoloQ: 49.5% · 1,228 g
- Rell7 games—SoloQ: 45.1% · 756 g
- Alistar6 games—SoloQ: 47.9% · 942 g
- Pyke6 games—SoloQ: 50.1% · 704 g
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+1.3%24,653 picks of 1,903,323ban 4.6% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments1.4%534 picks of 38,304ban 4.3% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.4%10 picks of 2,238bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
12.0% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Top- 2.8%G1200 games of 7,087
- 2.8%G2198 games of 7,088
- 2.4%G3+67 games of 2,818
