Cho'Gath·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Cho'Gath Mid build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Approach Velocity and Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Heartsteel as your first item, followed by Mercury's Treads and Hollow Radiance. For your last 3 items, you should build Unending Despair, Thornmail and finish with Kaenic Rookern. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 59.1% winrate over 237 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Arcane Comet as your keystone, Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch in the primary tree, and Cheap Shot with Ultimate Hunter in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Rod of Ages as your first item, then Mercury's Treads as a second item and Cosmic Drive as a third item. You want to finish the build with Riftmaker, Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 51.7% win rate across 178 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Cho'Gath Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection and Ultimate Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Manaflow Band with Gathering Storm as your secondary tree. Use Ability Haste, Health Scaling and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Hextech Rocketbelt as your first item, then finish Sorcerer's Shoes as your second item, and Stormsurge as third item. The last 3 options are Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap and Luden's Companion. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 50.6% win rate over 79 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.