If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
Focus on preventing Cho'Gath from reaching his max size.
Purchasing a few HP items decreases the chances of Cho'Gath killing you quickly.
Rupture has a smoke cloud indicating the area it will strike. Try to watch out for it to prevent Cho'Gath from being able to combo his abilities.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some important Evelynn vs. Cho'Gath counter stats that may help us understand the differences between this set of champions. Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cho'Gath’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Cho'Gath. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Evelynn often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Cho'Gath. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Evelynn usually fairs equally well when playing against Cho'Gath, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Evelynn makes an ok counter to Cho'Gath.
While Evelynn does have a lower winrate compared to Cho'Gath, when they face off with one another, Evelynn also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Evelynn into Cho'Gathas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Evelynn has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cho'Gath. This 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 in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Cho'Gath matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Evelynn is a somewhat poor counter to Cho'Gath. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Evelynn against Cho'Gath.
If you would like to truly master Evelynn in order to counter Cho'Gath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn usually gets a lot less CS compared to Cho'Gath. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Evelynn versus Cho'Gath build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Evelynn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Cho'Gath than with many other typical builds. In fact, Evelynn had an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Cho'Gath as Evelynn, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Evelynn vs Cho'Gath face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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