The current state of cho gath

Xavanic··3 votes·626 views

Chogath Seems to get alot of hate lately, people continue to go on about how hes not a viable due to his lack of reliable cc and his low base damages outside his ult....this is because cho isn't meant to be played tank, he's meant to be played as a brusier, generally building a RoA and ryalis/wits end.

See, his CC is unreliable on its own, this is because its not meant to be used a an engage, its meant to follow up on the CC of another champion, generally a true tank like Zac Maokai Sejuani Malphite Sion , then his knock-up becomes 100x times easier to land due to this, plus when he has that RoA and Rylais the damage of this ability goes through the roof with its absurd 1.0 ap scaling, combine this with say a thunderlords proc plus a w and you just melted half the team, and with your consistent damage off your aa's+E and your powerful execute your now a force to be reckoned with, as you CANNOT be blown up in one go AND you do damage comparable to that of a mid laner.

I don't care if people hate or flame me for this post, I just thought I would give some insight on Chogath as hes one of my favorite top laners to play

8 Comments

Jorencice1 votes

I play him as a pure mage.

Last game I played him I had 6600 life and 800 SO.

Could literally 1 shot anything that wasn't a pure tank if I landed my Q.

KoKoboto1 votes

Yup been playing a bunch of tank 1300 true damage ult jungle. I pretty much noticed by my 2nd game that he isn't a true tank. Often if I see my team has no other engage or CC I don't pick cho

z63XnLCMwX1 votes

Mao is more of a mage bruiser imo.

Xavanic1 votes

Mao has easy to land disruption along with a really high base damage on his e, cho doesn't have either of that

Kayote1 votes

I play him as a pure mage, don't buy RCS on him, as a slow it's garbage because the only time you're getting it's full effect is on your scream, your ult is better as an execute now, and it doesn't proc off of your Vorpal spikes, there are way better items to buy over it.

And I would disagree, he can be played as a pure tank, with only a rod of ages as a damage item and be a CC machine as well, you just have to be good at landing your CC. Get good at predicting enemy champs, that's the skill you have to learn with Cho.

Xavanic1 votes

vorpal spikes do proc of item 3116 ive used it multiple times lol

Kayote1 votes

When did that start happening? Regardless, I'd still prefer a high damage AP item over RCS, gotta do that 1k true damage asap

Xavanic1 votes

Been like this for at least a year, and I prefer RCS because it helps keep targets in range so I can get stacks easier, plus with gargoyles stoneplate its now alot easier to hit that 1k true dmg anyways

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