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.
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several valuable Cho'Gath vs. Jax matchup statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jax’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Jax..
Cho'Gath typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Jax. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually fairs equally well when facing off against Jax, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes an ok counter for Jax.
While Cho'Gath does have a higher winrate compared to Jax, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Cho'Gath into Jax.
Furthermore, Cho'Gath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jax. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Jax matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Cho'Gath is a decent counter for Jax. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Cho'Gath against Jax.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath to counter Jax during both the lane 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 displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath often gets a similar amount of CS as Jax. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Cho'Gath versus Jax build include Kaenic Rookern, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Cho'Gath incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Jax than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Jax with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Jax as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players should equip 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 that we analyzed for Cho'Gath vs Jax face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.6% win rate overall.
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