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.
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Cho'Gath vs. Janna matchup stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Cho'Gath typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Janna. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when facing off against Janna, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Cho'Gath makes a poor counter for Janna.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower win rate than Janna, when they face off with one another, Cho'Gath also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Cho'Gath into Janna.
Moreover, Cho'Gath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Cho'Gath is a trash counter for Janna. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Cho'Gath against Janna.
To learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath usually picks up much more CS relative to Janna. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Cho'Gath versus Janna build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Cho'Gath incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Janna than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average winrate of 47.4% when playing against Janna with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Janna as Cho'Gath, you 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 runes that we analyzed for Cho'Gath vs Janna LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
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