Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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 on this page emphasize several critical Trundle vs. Cho'Gath counter stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Cho'Gath..
Trundle often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Cho'Gath. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Trundle usually wins when trying to fight Cho'Gath, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Trundle makes a great counter for Cho'Gath.
While Trundle does have a higher win rate than Cho'Gath, when on opposite teams, Trundle also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Trundle into Cho'Gath.
Furthermore, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cho'Gath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Cho'Gath matchups, Trundle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Trundle is a great counter to Cho'Gath. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Trundle against Cho'Gath.
To truly master Trundle 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Cho'Gath. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Trundle versus Cho'Gath build consist of Spirit Visage, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle included at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Cho'Gath than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Trundle had an average win rate of 53.3% battling Cho'Gath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Cho'Gath as Trundle, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Trundle vs Cho'Gath counter picks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
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