Opinions On Cho'Gath?

Troy242621·Aug 12, 2015·1 votes·388 views

I'm pretty heavily biased, since I've always loved this Battlecast beast, but I was curious, is he still looking at nerfs in the near future? Do you think he needs them?

8 Comments

Prospector PeteAug 12, 20154 votes

I feel like his silence duration needs to be nerfed. In comparison, Garen has a 1.5 second melee ranged single targeted silence, while Cho has a ranged 2.5 second silence that does a ton of damage.

LoLKiruAug 12, 20151 votes

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I feel like his silence duration needs to be nerfed. In comparison, Garen has a 1.5 second melee ranged single targeted silence, while Cho has a ranged 2.5 second silence that does a ton of damage.

This, as a Cho'Gath main myself, If he had to get anything I'd rather it be a silence duration nerf; all of his other skills are fairly simple balance wise; Q is an AoE knockup with a delay on it and R is a true damage nuke, that requires Cho to be in melee range to use it.

Personally, I think W is fine damage wise, silence is probably too long though.

Prospector PeteAug 12, 20151 votes

That's what I was saying. Don't know why I was downvoted.

LoLKiruAug 12, 20151 votes

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That's what I was saying. Don't know why I was downvoted.

Make no mistake, if Cho can land his Q; he WILL get to you (either that or he'll just instantly win the trade / take half of your health depending on the stage of the game) and follow up with his other skills to kill you.

That said, I think he's in a fine spot overall sans perhaps silence duration, which is incredibly long for an AoE silence that is essentially undodgable (Malzahar's Q is stronger and lasts longer duration wise, as well as being AoE; however Malzahar can miss fairly easily; Cho can very realistically hit 3~5 people every time he uses his silence in a teamfight)

magic poleAug 12, 20151 votes

Sakura MirageAug 12, 20152 votes

What does cho gath offer is the question all I see is a good laning phase he is just too slow to actually get close to the enemy without being kited to oblivion. Why would he even need nerfs if he can't even lay a hand on the enemy.

ZombeezyJeezyAug 12, 20151 votes

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What does cho gath offer is the question all I see is a good laning phase he is just too slow to actually get close to the enemy without being kited to oblivion. Why would he even need nerfs if he can't even lay a hand on the enemy.

Sounds like you have a problem missing his enormous AOE knockup with ridiculous AP scaling.

Troy242621Aug 12, 20151 votes

In the jungle, I can tell you his early game is pretty poor. His clear speeds and sustain are just fine but his ganks are questionable. Strong objective control, though. Post-6 it actually beats Nunu as long as his ultimate is up. That's pretty impressive.

Still feels kinda meh. Lane Cho is better, and I don't know if that's over the top.