@Riot - Cho'gath AD or AP?

2VHWu4GBa6·7/31/2014, 12:52:48 AM·1 votes·2,156 views

If you're lazy, he would be viable if you changed the ratio's and scaling of his abilities to be AD instead of AP.

  • He has two melee spells (vorpal spikes and feast)
  • He has zero mobility (unlike other melee AP, fizz, gragas, maokai, malphite, amumu, singed, diana, akali, katarina, sejuani, nautilus, etc...)
  • He works decently with trinity force, which helps his mobility, but it feels weaker due to the fact that he has long cooldowns and doesn't scale with AD, right now.
  • Like olaf, he'd benefit nicely from being able to itemize around frozen mallet. the Rylai slow is just too weak on his E to even compare.

I see a lot of potential for an AD cho'gath rework, and it would be viable without much effort to redesign his spells. If he has plenty of power in his auto-attacks due to being an AD scaling champion, he would be punished so much less for not being able to hit his VERY wonky Q. Having power in auto-attacks would take off a lot of the pressure currently applied to him in the field of:

"LAND YOUR FUCKING Q CHO! god you're useless... the ONE job you have... stun their team and you can't fucking do it... GG report him after game." "why would you play that champion? All you're good for is CC, and you can't hit it half the time! you do no damage!"

About AP? Most AP casters that are immobile either have shields, invulerability, super long range, instant spells (or cast while moving, like syndra), or a combination of several of these benefits. Cho has NONE of these compensations to his kit that would make him a viable AP caster or tank. To fix this is going to require changing cast times, changing ranges, changing the way his ult affects other spells (like the doom bot cho) changing the way his ult itself works (also like doom bot cho) or just a complete kit overhaul.

  • In conclusion, I believe it would be a good idea to at least consider testing changing the ratio's on cho'gath's spells to scale with AD instead of AP. Please riot... I'm begging you to do SOMETHING with this champion... he's been my favorite since I started this game and I'm at the end of my rope.

11 Comments

Kyleman1437/31/2014, 1:13:03 AM1 votes

Except Cho Is more of a supportive tank ap champion... He isnt meant to be super mobile he is meant to build health and armor/MR then eat things get really big and become unkillable while knocking you up and silencing you

Dinosaur Nerd9/15/2014, 5:37:44 PM1 votes

I'm bumping this