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.
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
The stats provided here show some critical Cho'Gath versus Kassadin counter stats that may help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kassadin..
Cho'Gath normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kassadin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually wins when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Cho'Gath makes a good counter for Kassadin.
While Cho'Gath does have a higher winrate than Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Cho'Gath also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Cho'Gath into Kassadin.
Additionally, Cho'Gath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Kassadin matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Cho'Gath is a good counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Cho'Gath against Kassadin.
To truly master Cho'Gath in order to counter Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Kassadin. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many 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 Kassadin build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Kassadin than with most other common builds. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 52.6% battling Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Kassadin as Cho'Gath, you should equip 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 combinations we have analyed for Cho'Gath vs Kassadin counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.6% winrate overall.
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