Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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 stats shown here show some influential Poppy versus Cho'Gath counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cho'Gath’s ratio of NaN, showing that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Cho'Gath..
Poppy usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Cho'Gath. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually wins when facing off against Cho'Gath, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes a good counter for Cho'Gath.
While Poppy does have a higher winrate compared to Cho'Gath, when facing one another, Poppy also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Poppy into Cho'Gath.
Additionally, Poppy has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cho'Gath. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Cho'Gath matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Poppy is a decent counter to Cho'Gath. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Poppy against Cho'Gath.
If you would like to truly master Poppy to counter Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy on average racks up less CS relative to Cho'Gath. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Poppy versus Cho'Gath build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Cho'Gath than with many other common builds. In fact, Poppy had an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Cho'Gath as Poppy, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Poppy vs Cho'Gath battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Cho'Gath as Poppy are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.