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, Force of Nature and finish with Jak'Sho, The Protean. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 50.0% winrate over 1 162 matches played.

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 Magical Footwear with Approach Velocity in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Move Speed, and Tenacity and Slow Resist 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 Force of Nature as a third item. You want to finish the build with Unending Despair, Thornmail and Frozen Heart. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 55.6% win rate across 117 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, Sixth Sense and Ultimate Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Axiom Arcanist with Celerity as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Move Speed and Tenacity and Slow Resist as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Riftmaker 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 Force of Nature, Jak'Sho, The Protean and Randuin's Omen. The ability order for this build is E - W - Q. As of the current patch, this build has a 54.9% win rate over 82 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.