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.
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some critical Cho'Gath vs. Annie matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Annie’s ratio of NaN, showing that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Annie..
Cho'Gath often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Annie. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually fairs equally well when taking on Annie, with a 50.7% win rate. Therefore, Cho'Gath makes an ok counter for Annie.
While Cho'Gath does have a higher win rate than Annie, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Cho'Gath into Annie.
Additionally, Cho'Gath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Annie matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Cho'Gath is a decent counter for Annie. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cho'Gath against Annie.
If you would like to truly master Cho'Gath in order to counter Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Annie. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Cho'Gath versus Annie build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting Annie than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 50.7% when countering Annie with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Annie as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Cho'Gath vs Annie battles, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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