cho'gath jungle is sleeper op
calling it just rush mobis, gank, eat people, win the game coming ni for ganks at 460 ms
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he used to be strong before the most recent round of jungle changes to 
and 
. While that item is now great on Nautilus, Maokai, Sejuani, etc., it doesn't help Cho that much. This is because the golem item gives regen based on damage taken, while it used to give regen based on damage recieved. Cho benefits much more from the damage based regen because any cho jungler will max vorpal spikes, which deals a good amount of splash damage with each auto.
Cho isn't awful in the current jungle, but there's a reason you don't see him jungling anymore; that first clear is VERY brutal for him, and he's outclassed by every other tank jungler.
Heck the rework to Dorans and Machete changed things for a lot of champs in general.
WW used to be able to jg with a Dorans and no Smite. Now he should have a Machete and Smite again to be safe. Cho doesn't do as well with the new Machete either. His farm is slower and his HP are lower to begin, yes.
That said on any of my ranked accounts he can do his first clear and end it with pretty much full HP. Without runes it can be a mind numbing exercise in frustration tho. Like for several other champs.
Hyper tanky mega HP Cho still works well enough, but I'm not quite believing it would pass Platinum muster now.