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.
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some vital Cho'Gath against Lucian matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lucian’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lucian..
Cho'Gath often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lucian. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually wins when trying to fight Lucian, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Cho'Gath makes a good counter to Lucian.
While Cho'Gath does have a higher win rate than Lucian, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Cho'Gath into Lucian.
Moreover, Cho'Gath also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lucian. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Lucian matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champ with a 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 decent counter for Lucian. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Cho'Gath against Lucian.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath often racks up a similar amount of CS as Lucian. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Cho'Gath versus Lucian build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Heartsteel. When Cho'Gath included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Lucian than with most other common builds. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 51.4% when countering Lucian with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Lucian as Cho'Gath, Cho'Gath players 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 combinations players chose for Cho'Gath vs Lucian face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.4% winrate overall.
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