Cho'Gath·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Cho'Gath Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Hail of Blades as your keystone, followed by Cheap Shot, Grisly Mementos and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Axiom Arcanist and Celerity in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Move Speed in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Hextech Rocketbelt as your first item, followed by Boots of Swiftness and Riftmaker. For your last 3 items, you should build Dead Man's Plate, Jak'Sho, The Protean and finish with Thornmail. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 53.2% winrate over 1 584 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Hail of Blades as your keystone, Cheap Shot, Grisly Mementos and Ultimate Hunter in the primary tree, and Axiom Arcanist with Celerity in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Move Speed, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Heartsteel as your first item, then Mercury's Treads as a second item and Hollow Radiance as a third item. You want to finish the build with Thornmail, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Riftmaker. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 49.3% win rate across 134 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Cho'Gath Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Approach Velocity with Magical Footwear as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Hollow Radiance as your first item, then finish Mercury's Treads as your second item, and Heartsteel as third item. The last 3 options are Unending Despair, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Thornmail. The ability order for this build is E - Q - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 41.9% win rate over 93 matches played.

Situational Cho'Gath Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Cho'Gath build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.