Hi! i am Luis, better known in-game as BETTER PULL SAUL, a disaster plat-peaking jungler main with a passion for build theorycrafting and experimentation.

If i am not mistaken, i started playing league around the time Aurelion Sol came out, and despite maining some champs before him for a very long time (to be honest, with much higher winrates) i eventually fell in love with our Magic Godzilla.

I understand he is an outdated disaster champion with an identity crisis in dire need of a rework, and I'd be lying if I said I haven't had my moments of frustration with him; but time and time again, something in him fills me with happiness and love to endure all his defects. Cho'gath is the only champion that has brought me to tears, crying with laughter, just because i clicked a button and the enemy Zed exploded right there face-checking a bush.

He fills me with joy: everytime i am huge, everytime i one-shot the delusional enemy ADC, and everytime i watch his goofy *** walk animation and diabolical laugh as he goes into the jungle to murder some damned chickens.

Hope you enjoy it! i will update and expand it as soon as my studies let me :)

Pros → Great clear → Multiple forms of CC → Versatile → Infinite scaling meatshield → Single target nuke on ult → Hella fun

Cons → Outdated champion → Immobile & slow → Deceptively hard → Largest hitbox in the game → Stat-checker → No real combo

Cho'Gath is a Specialist champion, the likes of Singed, Heimerdinger, and Azir; champions that do not fit neatly in one class.

Contrary to popular belief, despite loving, and to a certain degree, requiring itemizing tank stats, on top of having a ton of CC (both hard and soft), and scaling into a giant HP wall, Cho'Gath is not a Tank: he has no true bread-n-butter combo (like Ornn's Q > E > W > AA), no innate mobility option to gap-close (like Leona's Zenith Blade), and no inherent way of increase his natural durability (like Shen's Ki Barrier).

Instead, Cho'Gath plays more like a half-melee Burst Mage (such as Syndra or Veigar), trying to dominate teamfights through powerful AoE abilities, removing key threats with his R Feast, and hard-punishing enemy mistakes.

PASSIVE

Carnivore - Whenever Cho'Gath kills a unit, he recovers 20-71 (+2.83 each level) health and 4.7-9.5 mana (+0.25 each level). - Carnivore is one of the most underrated passives in the game. The amount of sustain it provides is very overlooked, as it will keep you healthy throughout most of the clear (specially after farming multicamps, which normally restore you to full health earlygame), contributing to our tempo.

Q

Rupture - Cho'Gath ruptures the ground, knocking up enemies for 1 second, dealing 80 / 145 / 210 / 275 / 340 (+100% of ability power) magic damage and slowing them by 60% for 1.5 seconds. - While Rupture is a powerful spell in a vacuum, it is highly unreliable as it takes very long for it to go off, leaving plenty of time for the enemy to dash, Flash, or simply walk out of it before it hits. It's best used after another champion has CCed the target, from stealth (like a bush), or after silencing the target using Feral Scream, which will prevent them from dashing/flashing away. Nevertheless, a good Q alone can turn the tide of a teamfight.

W

Feral Scream - Cho'Gath unleashes a terrible scream, silencing enemies in a cone for 1.6 / 1.7 / 1.8 / 1.9 / 2 seconds and dealing 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 (+70% of ability power) magic damage. - Overall a great ability: An AoE silence with good damage. It can be used to pave the wave for a successful Rupture, or interrupt the chanellings of critical enemy spells like Vault Breaker, Absolute Zero, Crowstorm, Nether Grasp... Despite this, the value of Feral Scream kind of diminishes the bigger you get: since the cone doesn't grow with you and it comes from your center, it will have effectively less range as you scale.

E

Vorpal Spikes - Cho'Gath's attacks release spikes, dealing 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+30% of ability power) (+3% (+0.5% per Feast stack) of target's max health) magic damage and slow by 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%, decaying over 1.5 seconds. - Our main fighting tool. Very handy ability for clearing camps both big and small since it is both AoE and % hp dmg. The cooldown and mana cost are also low but, Cho'Gath's intrinsic lack of an attack speed steroid outside of Hail of Blades really cripples Vorpal Spikes' potential as a burst tool.

R

Feast - Cho'Gath ravenously feeds on an enemy, dealing 300 / 475 / 650 (+50% of ability power) (+10% of bonus health) true damage to champions or 1200 (+50% of ability power) (+10% of bonus health) true damage to minions or jungle monsters. If this kills the target, Cho'Gath gains a stack, which causes him to grow in size and gain 80 / 120 / 160 max health. Only 6 stacks can be gained from minions and non-epic jungle monsters. - Feast is one of the most reliable burst tools (if not the most) in the game. It should not be used blindly tho: keep it to remove a key threat of the enemy team (like the ADC or a mage); or stealing an objective like Elder Dragon (Tip: you can actually pair Feast with Smite when finishing off an objective, but you need to time it very well, with Feast going first). Don't be afraid of using it on camps if no ganking window or objective is available; and don't be afraid of using it on an enemy champion, even if its not going to give you an stack: feast is a tool for victory first and foremost.

My current jungle doctrine is very simple: Keep it safe.

Farming should ALWAYS come before ganking, as ganks are a fundamentally risky endeavor with no guaranty of success: By farming camps you build a gold advantage with which to pressure the enemy team later.

Blindly ganking leaves your jungle exposed to invades (or worse, you yourself, if you return low-health from lane) and effectively transfers tempo to your opponent!

On the other hand, you should ALWAYS be on the look-out to punish the enemy jungler at every turn: Every gank should be punished with an invade, or the taking of an objective.


Farming with Cho'Gath is quite simple: you destroy multicamps like raptors rather easy with any of your basic abilities (as they have high base damage and are AoE); but struggle to take down big ones like gromp, or objectives like dragon without Vorpal Spikes. That's why (aside of ganking) we max it first.

The "perfect" farming combo is:

- > ( reset) > > > >

Finish it up with either Smite or Feast (if the moment is right).

This sequence allows you to waste as little time as possible between attack wind-ups and ability cooldowns.

(!) Remember to kyte the camps as much as possible.



As Cho'Gath, there are three types of ganks you can practice:

A) The Standard gank, the one you can tell will most likely end up in the enemy's death. Under normal circurstances this one happens because the enemy laner is either overextended and/or has no summoners up, allowing you to get close.

- You engage the target with Feral Scream so they can't use any ability or summoner to dodge Rupture ( Feral Scream also allows your laner/s land any crowd control they may have), then follow up with Vorpal Spikes to chunk the target as much as possible while keeping them slowed. Wrap it up with a Feast if you have it up.


B) The Flash-popping gank, the one you can tell will most likely NOT end up in the enemy's death. This one happens almost always when you cannot reach the target with Feral Scream.

- Your objective will be to try to land a Rupture, which if it hits, will most likely make your target panic and pop Flash. Try to predict your enemy's pathing (this means aiming the Rupture to their current position or slightly before them, so they can't back-step it).


C) The countergank, which can play very similar to either A or B as the enemies will waste their abilities and/or summoners to different degrees. You'll need to decide your strategy for yourself.


You should always prioritize ganking Top or Bot before midlane, as they are way easier.



Currently i am no longer running Inspiration second because Legend: Alacrity feels SO good on Cho'Gath,

Hexflash should be used either creatively, as a way of surprising our enemies from weird/unexpected angles; or as a way to bypass common obstacles.

If you are gonna take it, the staples uses are:

- To go in and out of both Dragon and Baron Nashor's Pit.

- To cross into the wolf camp while coming from base.

- To gank midlane from the Raptor camp.

- To gank botlane/toplane from river bush.

- To gank toplane from Gromp's tribush.

Thanks to:

- Sovereign Kitten, for inspiration, thanks to her PASSIONATE GUIDE TO TEEMO!

- Kat***andra, for multiple wonderful guides at coding here!

- Sakuritou, Cho'gath OTP; for his warm and positive attitude towards me and his other viewers ^^

- You, the viewer, for gifting me with your time and attention <3