Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Cho'Gath vs. Aatrox matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aatrox’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aatrox..
Cho'Gath usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Aatrox. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when taking on Aatrox, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Cho'Gath makes a bad counter to Aatrox.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower winrate than Aatrox, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Cho'Gath into Aatrox.
Moreover, Cho'Gath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Cho'Gath is a trash counter to Aatrox. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cho'Gath against Aatrox.
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath to counter Aatrox during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Aatrox. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Cho'Gath versus Aatrox build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Aatrox than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 47.0% battling Aatrox with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Aatrox as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Cho'Gath vs Aatrox fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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