Cho'Gath

Cho'Gath is an AP tank in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a strong pick — a 52.2% win rate, 2.4% pick rate, 27,569 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. Cho'Gath grades low on siege and disengage (3/10, 3/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.

The most-played core build is Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker, Dead Man's Plate, which holds a 59.5% win rate across 938 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 Udyr, where Cho'Gath sits at just 42.8%, the lane swings the other way into Vladimir (58.2%), and on the team side, Cho'Gath gains the most from a Aurelion Sol (+8.3% pair win rate).