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.
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Cho'Gath against Poppy counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Poppy’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Poppy..
Cho'Gath typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Poppy. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when facing off against Poppy, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Cho'Gath makes a poor counter to Poppy.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower win rate compared to Poppy, when facing one another, Cho'Gath also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Cho'Gath into Poppy.
Moreover, Cho'Gath also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Cho'Gath vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Cho'Gath is a somewhat poor counter to Poppy. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Cho'Gath against Poppy.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Cho'Gath in order to counter Poppy during both the early game 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath on average accumulates more CS relative to Poppy. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Cho'Gath versus Poppy build include Thornmail, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Cho'Gath combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Poppy than with most other typical builds. In fact, Cho'Gath boasted an average winrate of 48.8% battling Poppy with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Poppy as Cho'Gath, you should use 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 Poppy face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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