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 provided here emphasize several valuable Rell vs. Cho'Gath matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cho'Gath’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Cho'Gath. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Rell typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Cho'Gath. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rell usually loses when playing against Cho'Gath, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Rell makes a bad counter to Cho'Gath.
While Rell does have a lower winrate than Cho'Gath, when they face off with one another, Rell also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rell into Cho'Gath.
Moreover, Rell has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cho'Gath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Cho'Gath matchups, Cho'Gath is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter for Cho'Gath. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Cho'Gath.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rell 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Cho'Gath. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Rell versus Cho'Gath build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Cho'Gath than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 48.2% battling Cho'Gath with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Cho'Gath as Rell, Rell players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Rell vs Cho'Gath matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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