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 Shurelya's Battlesong as your first item, followed by Symbiotic Soles and Dead Man's Plate. For your last 3 items, you should build Riftmaker, Unending Despair and finish with Thornmail. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 53.8% winrate over 1 560 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Cho'Gath Top build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Approach Velocity with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Heartsteel, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Sunfire Aegis as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Unending Despair, Thornmail and Jak'Sho, The Protean. The skill order for this build is E - Q - W. In the current patch, this build has a 53.3% win rate over 1 276 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Approach Velocity with Magical Footwear in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Health Scaling, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Shurelya's Battlesong as your first item, then Symbiotic Soles as a second item and Dead Man's Plate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Riftmaker, Unending Despair and Thornmail. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 53.5% win rate across 447 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, Arcane Comet, Axiom Arcanist, Transcendence and Gathering Storm as your primary rune tree, and Legend: Haste with Last Stand as your secondary tree. Use Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Rod of Ages as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Riftmaker as third item. The last 3 options are Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern and Force of Nature. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 50.8% win rate over 120 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.