Cho gath is the hardest top lane to play against for me.

TheSkillist·1/14/2015, 2:28:25 AM·1 votes·1,339 views

I main top lane, and i have a good variety of champs to choose through . I main Fiora and Gangplank, but i'm also very viable with renekton , jax, Irelia and darius. Yet no matter who i choose to play with i can not and i mean i can not lane against cho gath. I'm always pushed on turret and if farming under turret isn't hard enough. "not with irelia honestly" but with his w scream and q knock up . it's almost impossible to even keep up . i play 100% defensively every time i lane against him because i can't seem to win any trades.. any help ? and don't get me started on his r true damage...

7 Comments

Pucking Purrfect1/14/2015, 2:35:06 AM2 votes

A pro Cho'gath will stomp you in a heartbeat with those champions that you mentioned. Cho'gath's counters are Nasus, Garen, and Teemo. Don't play defensive against Cho'gath tbh. Just careful about the opponent team's jungler.

redniwediS1/14/2015, 2:39:12 AM2 votes

If you don't have the range to punish Cho'Gath when he moves up to CS (and therefore heal off damage) then you need to play a sustain battle. Try champions with strong sustain like Nasus or Mundo, who can typically heal up faster than Cho'Gath can while also not pushing the lane particularly hard.

Drunk Rummate1/14/2015, 2:49:01 PM1 votes

I play primarily Riven top and Cho is a tough matchup. His feast will deal about half your HP the moment he hits 6, it's crazy!

That said you can still outplay him by exploiting his early game squishyness. The idea is to wait for him to cast his Q and then just go all out on him. Without the knockup he loses an all in pre-6.

Wandering Wolf1/14/2015, 4:22:54 PM1 votes

If you want to know how to beat Cho, then you should play him a bunch, get a feel for the champ, and see what beats you. It might sound like a cheesy answer / too much of a pain in the neck when all you want are a few tips, but it's the simple truth, the nuances to a champion like Cho are best understood when you play from his perspective enough times to see where his weaknesses and strengths actually lie, and then you learn how to handle it, or when you really are just hard countered.

That said, cho has zero mobility and reverse snowballs when ganked, in the sense that if your jungler gives a helping hand in killing him once, then he -loses- ult stacks which makes killing him subsequently much simpler. Aka, if you abuse his lack of escapes with a jungle gank early, he effectively loses more control over the lane than most other champs would (granted he is a lane dominant champ, so the lose of lane control is relative to how much he has to begin with.)

For specific matchups, well you just gotta play them more, and like I said, you'll get that experience faster by playing cho himself. Btw, Cho is awesome, so maybe you might like the champ =P