Cho'Gath vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Cho'Gath
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Cho'Gath vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Cho'Gath vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Cho'Gath
Tips for Playing as Cho'Gath against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Cho'Gath vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Cho'Gath in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Cho'Gath versus Graves counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Cho'Gath often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Graves. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Cho'Gath and Graves
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Who is Better, Cho'Gath or Graves?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when taking on Graves, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes a bad counter for Graves.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when they face off with one another, Cho'Gath also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Cho'Gath into Graves.
Additionally, Cho'Gath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting 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 Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Cho'Gath is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Cho'Gath against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Cho'Gath to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath most often gets more CS compared to Graves. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Cho'Gath versus Graves build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Graves with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Graves as Cho'Gath, you should use 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 builds players chose for Cho'Gath vs Graves fights, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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