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 Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Legend: Tenacity and Triumph 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 Sunfire Aegis. For your last 3 items, you should build Thornmail, Jak'Sho, The Protean and finish with Kaenic Rookern. For the skill order, you want to stick with E - Q - W. Right now, this build has 42.9% winrate over 119 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Smite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, Demolish, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, and Legend: Tenacity with Triumph 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 Sunfire Aegis as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Heartsteel as a third item. You want to finish the build with Kaenic Rookern, Thornmail and Hextech Rocketbelt. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it E - Q - W. This build is currently sitting at a 45.0% win rate across 60 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.