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.
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
The stats shown here emphasize some valuable Cho'Gath vs. Yorick matchup statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, showing that Cho'Gath may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Yorick..
Cho'Gath often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives more damage than Yorick. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Cho'Gath usually loses when trying to fight Yorick, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Cho'Gath makes a bad counter to Yorick.
While Cho'Gath does have a lower win rate compared to Yorick, when they face off with one another, Cho'Gath also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Cho'Gath into Yorick.
Additionally, Cho'Gath has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Yorick matchups, Yorick is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Cho'Gath is a somewhat poor counter to Yorick. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Cho'Gath against Yorick.
To truly master Cho'Gath in order to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cho'Gath usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Yorick. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Cho'Gath versus Yorick build include Unending Despair, Heartsteel, and Hollow Radiance. When Cho'Gath included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Yorick than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Cho'Gath had an average win rate of 48.2% battling Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Yorick 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 rune combinations players chose for Cho'Gath vs Yorick counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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