Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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 underscore several important Urgot vs. Cho'Gath counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cho'Gath’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Cho'Gath..
Urgot usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Cho'Gath. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Urgot usually wins when trying to fight Cho'Gath, with a 54.2% win rate. Therefore, Urgot makes a great counter to Cho'Gath.
While Urgot does have a much higher winrate than Cho'Gath, when on opposite teams, Urgot also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Urgot into Cho'Gathas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Urgot also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cho'Gath. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Cho'Gath matchups, Urgot is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Urgot is a great counter for Cho'Gath. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Urgot against Cho'Gath.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Urgot in order to counter Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Cho'Gath. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Urgot versus Cho'Gath build include Black Cleaver, Titanic Hydra, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Urgot incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Cho'Gath than with many other common builds. In fact, Urgot boasted an average winrate of 54.2% when countering Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Cho'Gath as Urgot, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Urgot vs Cho'Gath LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Cho'Gath as Urgot are presented for all skill levels, merged. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.