Cho'Gath·Jungle Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Cho'Gath Jungle build, you should take Flash and Smite 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, Unending Despair and finish with Jak'Sho, The Protean. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 51.1% winrate over 4 282 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Cho'Gath Jungle build would be to take Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are 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. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Move Speed in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Shurelya's Battlesong, which you should build first, followed by Boots of Swiftness as your second item and Dead Man's Plate as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Force of Nature, Thornmail and Unending Despair. The skill order for this build is E - Q - W. In the current patch, this build has a 47.2% win rate over 318 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite 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 Dead Man's Plate as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Riftmaker as a third item. You want to finish the build with Unending Despair, Thornmail and Kaenic Rookern. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - W - Q. This build is currently sitting at a 53.4% win rate across 305 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Cho'Gath Jungle build in the current patch, try Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Grisly Mementos and Ultimate Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Axiom Arcanist with Celerity as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Move Speed and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Heartsteel as your first item, then finish Boots of Swiftness as your second item, and Dead Man's Plate as third item. The last 3 options are Unending Despair, Thornmail and Riftmaker. The ability order for this build is E - Q - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 43.3% win rate over 157 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.