A discussion on Cho'gath

Ah, Cho'gath, the barely played Void Monster of Eating Teemo's and everything else but buildings.

With a lot of other champions as of late being changed, why do you remain the same? You are barely played, and I wonder why, as other champions lose things, you remain with the things those champions lost.

Let's talk about his silence. A decently large cone AoE that, when maxed, is a 2.5 silence. A silence which a lot of champions lost, Talon for instance, lost his dash-to-silence (And it became a slow and still remains named oddly), and LeBlanc, who lost her Sigil of Silence, which was actually renamed. And although some champions still have theirs, Soraka, Garen...

Garen requires to get in your face. And Soraka's barely does any damage, and only lasts 1.5 seconds, plus you can just walk out of it.

Something else that made me curious... a not-so-long ago nerf to Darius' dunking capability, nerfing the true damage to 100/200/300 and 75% AD, 20% more for each stack.

Something I don't get is that Cho'gath's is a raw 300/475/600 with 70% AP.

Darius must work for his extra damage, and although the range is slightly longer, Cho'gath merely needs to just get in close and eat you, which, really isn't hard for him. Because of the long silence making it nigh impossible to escape and if he is building Rylais, natural slowing auto-attacks, and because you can no longer get away, it makes it rather easy to hit the knock up.

So, why is Cho'gath under looked when he seems so powerful with his numbers? Bruiser/AP wise, he seems really good in numbers, and that silence baffles me since Riot seemed intent in removing them, or at least, nerfing the silence.

Although this does seem like a complaint, and, the underlying fact is, yes, I recently faught a few Cho'gaths, and lost.

This is not a complaint to say "NERF PLEASE.", do not mistake it as such, this is a complaint on balance to ask, why does his super-long and high-scaling silence remain when others lost theirs, that, especially Talon's, didn't last nearly as long, nor did his even 'do' damage.

I want to hear other people's opinions on this, especially those of higher ranks, what do you think of Cho'gath? Why is he so underplayed? Why has his silence remained untouched in comparison? I'd like to hear your opinions, as mine are most probably flawed and of course, biased.

Thanks for reading.