Cho'Gath vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Cho'Gath
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Cho'Gath vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Brand
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.
Advice to Win Against Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Cho'Gath vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some vital Cho'Gath vs. Brand counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Brand..
Cho'Gath often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Brand. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Brand
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Brand?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when trying to fight Brand, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower winrate than Brand, when on opposite teams, Cho'Gath also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Cho'Gath into Brand.
Furthermore, Cho'Gath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Cho'Gath is a terribly counter to Brand. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Cho'Gath against Brand.
Other Champion Matchups Against Cho'Gath
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to counter Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath most often gets more CS relative to Brand. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Cho'Gath versus Brand build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Brand than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 46.6% battling Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Brand 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for Cho'Gath vs Brand counters, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
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