Cho'Gath Jungle, patch 16.11. Below you'll find Cho'Gath's build, runes, toughest counters, strongest duos, and win conditions, every number measured from current-patch Emerald+ ranked games.
Cho'Gath is an AP tank in the jungle, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 52.9% win rate, 0.4% pick rate, 4,584 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Cho'Gath is a scaling champion: comparatively weak early, but one of the strongest picks on the map once core items come online — so the plan is to survive the laning phase and take the game over late.
How Cho'Gath wins: grouped 5-v-5 teamfights, where Cho'Gath tips the fight, and winning the wave and turning push priority into map control. The kit grades 8/10 teamfighting, 7/10 waveclear. Play around where Cho'Gath is thin, siege and disengage (3/10, 3/10), and the enemy loses their angle.
The most-played core build is Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, Dead Man's Plate, which holds a 54.1% win rate across 257 games this patch. Set the enemy team at the top of the page to see how the path shifts against that comp.
The matchup to respect is Ahri, where Cho'Gath sits at just 44.4%, the lane swings the other way into Kai'Sa (57.5%), and on the team side, Cho'Gath gains the most from a Braum (+12.7% pair win rate).
Cho'Gath's highest-volume core items and rune page this patch. Select the enemy composition above and the build re-optimizes for that exact matchup.
The picks Cho'Gath Jungle struggles into most this patch, sorted by your in-matchup win rate. These are your priority bans.
Champions whose presence raises Cho'Gath's win rate most as Jungle, by pair WR delta over Cho'Gath's solo performance.
Cho'Gath is also played in these other roles this patch.
Take Cho'Gath into the Team Builder to plan around every pick, or check the Tier List to see exactly where Cho'Gath ranks this patch.