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Tank / Mage

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Cho'Gath Win Rate

WR49.3%PR2.8%BR0.4%Based onDiamond+ Top games

Cho'Gath Current Status

Leaning down - 1 of Cho'Gath's last 3 changes was a nerf. Cho'Gath was last adjusted in Patch 25.23 (). Across 90 patches, Cho'Gath has received 28 buffs, 10 nerfs, 52 adjustments since release in Patch 0.8.21.110.

Build GuideHextech RocketbeltRiftmakerDead Man's PlateTop +4 more roles

Cho'Gath Build Guide (Top)

League of Legends Cho'Gath Top build from Emerald+ ranked games: the most popular core purchase order is Hextech Rocketbelt into Riftmaker into Dead Man's Plate, built in 5.00% of sampled games with a 60.00% win rate. Based on 3,204 games, updated 2026-08-20.

Item Build

Starting items60.87% WR · 34.50% pick

Doran's RingDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionHealth PotionHealth Potion

Most popular core60.00% WR · 5.00% pick · 10 games

Hextech RocketbeltHextech RocketbeltRiftmakerRiftmakerDead Man's PlateDead Man's Plate

Alternative core 160.00% WR · 2.50% pick · 5 games

Hextech RocketbeltHextech RocketbeltRiftmakerRiftmakerRanduin's OmenRanduin's Omen

Alternative core 260.00% WR · 2.50% pick · 5 games

Hextech RocketbeltHextech RocketbeltRiftmakerRiftmakerUnending DespairUnending Despair

Most popular boots53.66% WR · 41.00% pick · 82 games

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps

Alternative boots49.09% WR · 27.50% pick · 55 games

Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness

Runes

Most popular page49.28% WR · 25.84% pick · 828 games

Hail of BladesCheap ShotGrisly MementosUltimate HunterAxiom ArcanistCelerityAdaptive ForceMove SpeedHealth Scaling

Domination primary · Sorcery secondary · stat shards

Alternative page51.71% WR · 15.51% pick · 497 games

Grasp of the UndyingDemolishConditioningOvergrowthApproach VelocityMagical FootwearAttack SpeedHealth ScalingHealth Scaling

Resolve primary · Inspiration secondary · stat shards

Summoner Spells

Most popular summoners51.13% WR · 75.94% pick · 2,433 games

FlashTeleport

Alternative summoners49.06% WR · 18.32% pick · 587 games

FlashIgnite

Skill Order E > Q > W

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RuptureQQQQQ
Feral ScreamWWWWW
Vorpal SpikesEEEEE
FeastRRR

The most common exact leveling path in sampled Top games (9 games, 88.89% win rate).

Win and pick rates from Emerald+ ranked solo queue (NA), aggregated from our own match crawl. Purchase-order and skill-order stats use a per-role subsample. Updated 2026-08-20.

Ability DetailsFull kit, stats, and scaling
CarnivorePC
Passive - Carnivore

Innate: Whenever Cho'Gath kills an enemy, it heals for 18 - 52 (based on level) and restores 4.72 - 9.48 (based on level) mana.

RupturePC
Q - Rupture
Cost: 50 mana
CD: 6
Cast Time: 0.5
Range: 950
Effect Radius: 250

Active: Cho'Gath ruptures the target location after a 0.625 delay, granting sight of the area before dealing magic damage to enemies within and knocking them up for 1 second, and afterwards slowing them by 60% for 1.5 seconds.

Magic damage: 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 (+ 100% AP)
Feral ScreamPC
W - Feral Scream
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 mana
CD: 11 / 10.5 / 10 / 9.5 / 9
Cast Time: 0.5
Range: 650

Active: Cho'Gath roars in a cone in the target direction, dealing magic damage to enemies hit.

Magic damage: 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+ 70% AP)
Silence Duration: 1.6 / 1.7 / 1.8 / 1.9 / 2 seconds

Enemy champions and Rift Scuttlers hit are also silenced for a duration.

Vorpal SpikesPC
E - Vorpal Spikes
Cost: 30 mana
CD: 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4
Range: 650

Active: Cho'Gath empowers its next 3 basic attacks within 6 seconds to gain 50 bonus range and launch a blast of spikes on-attack in the target's direction. Enemies struck are dealt magic damage and slowed by an amount that decays over 1.5 seconds. The damage is modified against monsters.

Magic Damage: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+ 30% AP) (+ 2.5% / 2.85% / 3.2% / 3.55% / 3.9% (+ 0.5% per Feast stack) of target's maximum health)
Total Magic Damage: 60 / 120 / 180 / 240 / 300 (+ 90% AP) (+ 7.5% / 8.55% / 9.6% / 10.65% / 11.7% (+ 1.5% per Feast stack) of target's maximum health)
Monster Damage: 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+ 30% AP)
Total Monster Damage: 300 / 450 / 600 / 750 / 900 (+ 90% AP)
Slow: 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%

The width of the blast of spikes increases based on Cho'Gath's character size modifier when they launch, including but not limited to the bonus from Feast stacks.

Vorpal Spikes resets Cho'Gath's basic attack timer.

FeastPC
R - Feast
Cost: 100 mana
CD: 80 / 70 / 60
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 175

Active: Cho'Gath attempts to eat the target enemy, dealing them true damage. Against non- champions, the base damage is modified.

Champion True Damage: 300 (+ 50% AP) (+ 10% bonus health)
Non-Champion True Damage: 1200 (+ 50% AP) (+ 10% bonus health)
Bonus Health Per Stack: 80 / 120 / 160
Bonus Attack Range Per Stack: 4.7 / 6.2 / 7.7
Bonus Size Per Stack: 6 / 8 / 10%

If the target is killed, Cho'Gath gains a stack of Feast. Only 6 stacks can be gained from non-epic monsters or minions.

Each stack of Feast increases the cast range of the ability by 2.5, for a maximum increase of 25 at 10 stacks, and grants Cho'Gath bonus health as well as bonus attack range and increased size, capping at 75 bonus attack range and 100% increased size.

Base Stats

Health: 644
Health Per Level: 94
Mana: 270
Mana Per Level: 60
Attack Damage: 69
AD Per Level: 4.2
Attack Speed: 0.658
AS Per Level: 1.44
Armor: 38
Armor Per Level: 4.5
Magic Resist: 32
MR Per Level: 2.05
Movement Speed: 345
Range: 125
Health Regen: 9
HP Regen Per Level: 0.85
Mana Regen: 7.2
Mana Regen Per Level: 0.45

Cho'Gath Changes

Patch 25.23

change

While he's no stranger to being played in all sorts of alternate roles, Cho'Gath has a naturally fitting jungle kit and we'd like to make that work well. We're adjusting his E damage vs. monsters to no longer care about their max HP and instead just deliver a solid punch to get through his camps. This should be an unequivocal buff to early monster damage.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Monster damage:
  • New: 100/150/200/250/300 (+ 30% AP).
  • Old: 20/40/60/80/100 (+ 30% AP) (+ 2.5/2.85/3.2/3.55/3.9% (+ 0.5% per Feast stack) of target's maximum health). The damage based on the target's health ratio is capped at 200 against monsters.

Patch 25.11

nerf

Armor growth decreased.

Stats

  • Armor growth reduced to 4.5 from 5.

Patch 25.10

change

Base Attack Speed increased. Q damage decreased. E damage increased.

Stats

  • Base attack speed increased to 0.658 from 0.625.

Rupture

  • Base damage reduced to 80/135/190/245/300 from 80/140/200/260/320.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Health ratio increased to 2.5/2.85/3.2/3.55/3.9% of target's maximum health from 2.5/2.75/3/3.25/3.5%.

Patch 25.9

change

Feast

  • New Effect: While the ability is not on cooldown, its icon can now be pinged to display the damage to monsters in chat, similarly to Smite.

Patch 25.5

nerf

Q damage decreased. W damage decreased. E damage decreased at lower ranks but increased at higher ranks.

Rupture

  • Base damage reduced to 80/140/200/260/320 from 80/145/210/275/340.

Feral Scream

  • Base damage reduced to 80/130/180/230/280 from 80/135/190/245/300.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Health ratio changed to 2.5/2.75/3/3.25/3.5% of target's maximum health from 3% at all ranks.

Patch 14.14

buff

Q base damage increased. E base damage increased.

Rupture

  • Base damage increased to 80/145/210/275/340 from 80/140/200/260/320.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Base damage changed to 20/40/60/80/100 from 22/37/52/67/82.

Patch 14.10

change

E damage cap against monsters raised to a flat value, damage cap against minions removed.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Removed: Health ratio damage is no longer capped against minions.
  • Monster damage cap increased to 200 at all ranks from 60/80/100/120/140.

Patch 14.7

change

General

  • Bug Fix: During a basic attack, arms now follow their proper animation instead of breaking from the model's skeleton or readjusting abruptly.

Patch 14.6

buff

W cooldown decreased. E damage increased.

Feral Scream

  • Cooldown reduced to 11/10.5/10/9.5/9 seconds from 13/12/11/10/9.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Base damage increased to 22/37/52/67/82 from 22/34/46/58/70.

Patch 14.2

buff

Feast

  • Bonus attack range per stack increased to 4.7/6.2/7.7 from (60 to 100)/13 3.
  • New Effect: Cast range is now increased by 2.5 per stack, up to 25 at 10 stacks.
  • Extended tooltip now displays the bonus range granted for basic attacks and the ability.

Patch 13.6

change

Patch 13.4

buff

Armor growth increased. Q mana cost decreased, base damage increased. W mana cost decreased.

Stats

  • Armor growth increased to 5 from 4.7.

Rupture

  • Base damage increased to 80/140/200/260/320 from 80/135/190/245/300.
  • Mana cost reduced to 50 from 60.

Feral Scream

  • Mana cost reduced to 70/75/80/85/90 from 70/80/90/100/110.

Patch 12.23

buff

Passive mana restoration increased. W base damage increased. R cooldown now decreases with rank.

Carnivore

  • Mana restore increased to 4.72 to 9.48 (based on level) from 3.5 to 7.75 (based on level).

Feral Scream

  • Base damage increased to 80/135/190/245/300 from 75/125/175/225/275.

Feast

  • Cooldown reduced to 80/70/60 seconds from 80 at all ranks.

Patch 12.22

buff

R damage increased.

Feast

  • Non-champion base damage increased to 1200 from 1000.

Patch 12.19

change

General

  • Bug Fix: Icon in the HUD now properly displays the correct size and image.

Patch 12.14

change

Feast

  • Undocumented/Bug Fix: Buff tooltip title renamed to "Feast" from "Feast x1".

Patch 12.10

buff

Stats

  • Base health increased to 644 from 574.
  • Health growth increased to 94 from 80.
  • Armor growth increased to 4.7 from 3.5.
  • Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.

Carnivore

  • Base heal reduced to 18 to 52 (based on level) from 20 to 71 (based on level).

Patch 11.20

change

Carnivore

  • Bug Fix: No longer activates from destroying trinkets or champion-generated objects.

Patch 11.19

buff

Q cooldown decreased.

Rupture

  • Cooldown reduced to 6 seconds from 7.

Patch 11.3

nerf

E base damage decreased later.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Base damage reduced to 22/34/46/58/70 from 22/37/52/67/82.

Patch 11.1

nerf

Stats

  • Base health reduced to 574 from 574.4.
  • Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.

Patch 10.23

change

Stats

  • Base mana reduced to 270 from 272.2.
  • Mana growth increased to 60 from 40.
  • Base mana regeneration reduced to 7.2 from 7.206.

Patch 10.14

change

Feral Scream

  • Bug Fix: Now properly silences Rift Scuttler.

Patch 10.9

buff

E damage increased later.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Base damage per spike increased to 22/37/52/67/82 from 22/34/46/58/70.
  • Total base damage increased to 66/111/156/201/246 from 66/102/138/174/210.

Patch 10.4

change

Feast

  • Bug Fix: Execute indicator now appears as intended and is properly visible.

Patch 9.20

change

Feast

  • Bug Fix: Execute indicator now properly appears on clones' health bars.

Patch 9.10

change

Feast

  • Undocumented: New indicator on enemy health bar, indicating when the enemy will be executed.

Patch 9.7

buff

Rupture

  • Cooldown reduced to 7 seconds from 9.

Patch 9.5

buff

Vorpal Spikes

  • Base damage increased to 22/34/46/58/70 from 20/30/40/50/60.

Patch 8.10

change

Vorpal Spikes

  • Bug Fix: Now sound more in line with the skin's theme.

Patch 8.7

change

General

  • Bug Fix: Maw is no longer rigged improperly when using his emotes.

Patch 8.5

change

Vorpal Spikes

  • Bug Fix: No longer use classic SFX when he has 10+ stacks of Feast.

Patch 8.3

buff

General

  • Complete VFX update.

Stats

  • Base health regeneration increased to 9 from 8.928.

Patch 8.2

buff

Feast

  • New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

Patch 8.1

change

Vorpal Spikes

  • Bug Fix: Empowered attacks no longer interrupt the basic attacks of enemy champions they hit.

Patch 7.24

change

General

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where all skins (except for Battlecast Prime) stole Jurassic death SFX.

Patch 7.21

change

Feast

  • Bug Fix: Stacks now correctly count spawned Rift Herald as epic monsters.

Patch 7.20

change

Feast

  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing the meal tracker to count jungle monsters oddly.

Patch 7.19

change

Feral Scream

  • Bug Fix: Is now of higher fidelity on very low settings.

Patch 7.17

change

General

  • Bug Fix: Corrected suggested starting items to no longer cost more than starting gold.

Patch 7.15

nerf

Vorpal Spikes

  • Base damage reduced to 20/30/40/50/60 from 20/35/50/65/80.
  • Target's maximum health ratio reduced to 3% of target's maximum health from 4%.
  • Bug Fix: Parts of head armor no longer stretches during his dance animation.

Patch 7.14

buff

Rupture

  • Base damage reduced to 80/135/190/245/300 from 80/135/190/245/305.
  • Mana cost reduced to 60 from 90.

Feral Scream

  • Silence duration increased to 1.6/1.7/1.8/1.9/2 seconds from 1.5/1.625/1.75/1.875/2.

Vorpal Spikes

  • New Cooldown: 8/7/6/5/4 seconds.
  • New Mana Cost: 30 mana.
  • Removed Toggle: Cho'Gath's basic attacks each launch a volley of spikes in a line, dealing 25/35/50/65/80 (+ 30% AP) magic damage and applying spell effects to enemies hit.
  • New Active: Cho'Gath's next 3 basic attacks launch a volley of spikes in a line, dealing 25/35/50/65/80 (+ 30% AP) (+ 4% (+ 0.5% per Feast stack) of target's maximum health) magic damage and applying a decaying over the next 1.5 seconds slow of 30/35/40/45/50%.
  • New Effect: Now grants 50 bonus range.
  • New Effect: Now resets Cho'Gath basic attack timer.
  • Bug Fix: Now correctly applies Hunter's Talisman health drain.

Patch 7.13

change

General

  • Basic attack and ability audio has been updated for all skins without skin-specific audio effects.

Patch 7.9

change

Vorpal Spikes

  • Undocumented: Tooltip now mentions spikes apply spell effects.

Patch 7.7

change

Feast

  • Bug Fix: Kill indicator now properly takes ability power into consideration.

Patch 7.6

buff

Feast

  • Bonus health per stack increased to 80/120/160 from 80/110/140.
  • Total stacks that can be gained from minions and non-epic monsters increased to 6 from 5.

Patch 7.5

buff

Feral Scream

  • New Effect: Adjusted particle to match actual cone size.

Patch 7.4

change

Feast

  • Removed: Loses half stacks on death.
  • New Effect: Can now stack infinitely (from 6), but can only gain up to 5 stacks from killing non-epic monsters or minions.
  • Removed: Healing if at 6 stacks.
  • Removed: Champion kill granting 2 stacks.
  • Removed: Minions and monsters kill refunding 50% cooldown and mana cost.
  • New Effect: Tooltip now lists how many minions, pets, monsters, dragons, epic monsters and champions you have eaten.
  • AP ratio reduced to 50% AP from 70% AP.
  • New Effect: Damage now scales with 10% bonus health.
  • Health per stack reduced to 80/110/140 from 100/140/180.
  • New Effect: Reaches maximum size at 10 stacks.
  • Maximum bonus attack range increased to 75 from 50.

Patch 6.20

change

Feral Scream

  • Cooldown reduced to 13/12/11/10/9 seconds from 13.
  • Range increased to 650 from 585.
  • Silence duration reduced to 1.5/1.625/1.75/1.875/2 seconds from 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5.
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where units would be hit if they had escaped the area after the cast.

Patch 6.6

buff

Feast

  • Bonus health per stack increased to 100/140/180 from 90/120/150.

Patch 6.5

buff

General

  • New ability icons.

Patch 5.21

buff

General

  • Tooltip updated. While the healing effect is not shown on the updated tooltip, it is still functional.
  • New Effect: Enemy champion kills with Feast generate 2 stacks instead of 1 stack.
  • New Effect: Killing an enemy unit with Feast when Cho'Gath is already at 6 stacks will heal him for 90/120/150. The heal is doubled when the ability kills an enemy champion.

Patch 4.21

nerf

Feast

  • Cooldown increased to 80 seconds from 60.
  • If Feast scores the kill on a minion or monster, it refunds 50% of the cooldown and mana cost.

Patch 4.8

buff

Feast

  • Cast range increased to 175 from 150.
  • Cast time reduced to 0.25 seconds from 0.5.

Patch 3.15

change

Rupture

  • Fixed a tooltip typo that incorrectly stated the slow duration as 3 seconds instead of 1.5.

Patch 3.1

nerf

Feral Scream

  • Silence duration reduced to 1.5/1.75/2/2.25/2.5 seconds from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3.

Patch 1.0.0.154

change

Feral Scream

  • Targeting cone is now attached to Cho'Gath.

Patch 1.0.0.153

change

Carnivore

  • Health restore adjusted to 20 to 71 (based on level) from 34 to 68 (based on level).

Patch 1.0.0.144

buff

Stats

  • Magic resist per level increased to 1.25.
  • Attack range normalized to 125 from 130.

Rupture

  • Cast time reduced to 0.5 seconds from 0.672.
  • Delay normalized to 0.625 seconds from 0.5 - 0.75.

Feral Scream

  • Cast time reduced to 0.5 seconds from 0.6417.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Width now increases based on Cho'Gath's size.

Feast

  • Now grants Cho'Gath up to 50 additional Attack Range, based on Feast rank and amount of stacks.
  • Cast time normalized to 0.5 seconds from 0.43.
  • Range increased to 150 from 100.

Patch 1.0.0.140

buff

Rupture

  • Added red/green rings to indicate which targets will be affected.
  • Launch delay reduced to 0.65 seconds from 0.7.

Patch 1.0.0.139

buff

Stats

  • Base movement speed increased to 320 from 315.

Patch 1.0.0.133

change

Feast

  • Fixed a bug where it would fail to kill shielded targets.

Patch 1.0.0.125

change

Feast

  • Adjusted his run animation speed while enlarged by Feast stacks.

Patch 1.0.0.123

change

Feast

  • Fixed a bug where Cho'Gath could gain a stack even when the target did not die.

Patch 1.0.0.120

change

Feast

  • A particle will now appear correctly on enemy targets when they can be killed by Feast.

Patch 1.0.0.118b

nerf

Rupture

  • Reduced the chance of failing to knock up the target.

Patch 1.0.0.113

change

Stats

  • Base health reduced to 520 from 550.
  • Base armor reduced to 19 from 21.

Carnivore

  • Mana restored on kill has been reduced to 3.5 to 7.75 (based on level) from 7 to 15.5 (based on level).

Feral Scream

  • Damage reduced to 75/125/175/225/275 from 80/130/180/240/300.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Damage increased to 20/35/50/65/80 from 20/30/40/50/60.
  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.3 from 0.2.

Feast

  • Damage reduced to 300/475/650 from 300/550/800.
  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.7 from 0.5.

Patch 1.0.0.109

change

Feast

  • Now loses half stacks (rounded up) instead of 3 stacks on death.
  • This is inconsistent with the last known change during V1.0.0.86.

Patch 1.0.0.107

change

Rupture

  • Delay reduced to 0.75 seconds from 0.8.

Carnivore

  • Health restored upon kill reduced to 34 to 68 (based on level) from 40 to 82 (based on level).
  • Mana restored upon kill reduced to 7 to 15.5 (based on level) from 8 to 16.5 (based on level).

Patch 1.0.0.105

change

Rupture

  • Fixed a bug with the levelup tooltip that showed cooldown even though the cooldown did not change.

Patch 1.0.0.103

buff

Rupture

  • Cooldown reduced to 9 seconds from 10.
  • Mana cost changed to 90 at all ranks from 80/90/100/110/120.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Is now classified as an area of effect spell for the sake of items like Rylai's Crystal Scepter or Hextech Revolver.

Patch 1.0.0.100

change

Feral Scream

  • Silence duration reduced to 2/2.25/2.5/2.75/3 seconds from 2/2.5/3/3.5/4.
  • Cooldown reduced to 13 seconds from 16.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Fixed a display error with death recap.

Patch 1.0.0.96

change

Vorpal Spikes

  • Will no longer trigger cast effects like Lich Bane.
  • Will now fire even if the target is missed.

Feast

  • Can now be cast more easily on any unit, including: Dragon, Lizard Elder, or other very large Cho'Gaths.

Patch 1.0.0.94

change

General

  • Cho'Gath will now be properly considered melee for the sake of items like Youmuu's Ghostblade.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Can now be toggled off.

Feast

  • Fixed a bug at rank 3 where Cho'Gath has difficulty feasting when he has max stacks.
  • Fixed a bug where the ability buff tooltip was not updating the bonus health when Cho'Gath loses stacks.
  • Fixed a bug where Cho'Gath was not scaling properly when he loses stacks.
  • Fixed a bug where the Tenacity mastery caused it not to kill the target.

Patch 1.0.0.86

change

Rupture

  • Now deals damage on knocking the targets into the air, rather than when they fall to the ground.

Feast

  • Stacks lost on death changed to half the stacks rounded up from all of them.

Patch 1.0.0.82

change

General

  • Tweaked autoattack animation timing.

Patch 1.0.0.79

change

Feast

  • It no longer appears to deal excessive damage in Death Recap.
  • Updated tooltip to reflect the functionality that it damages the target and if it kills them, you gain health (reverted to the old functionality).

Patch 1.0.0.74

change

Feast

  • Fixed a bug where it was not able to kill Poppy.

Patch 1.0.0.72

change

Feast

  • Fixed a bug where activating it when the target had too much health caused too much damage.

Patch 1.0.0.63

nerf

Rupture

  • Slow duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4.

Patch 1.0.0.61

nerf

Rupture

  • Cast range reduced to 950 from 1000.

Feral Scream

  • Ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 0.75.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Ability power ratio reduced to 0.2 from 0.25.

Patch 1.0.0.52

buff

Rupture

  • Range increased to 1000 from 900.

Feral Scream

  • Cooldown reduced to 16 seconds from 17.
  • Range increased to 650 from 615.

Patch 1.0.0.32

change

Feast

  • Fixed an issue where Cho'Gath would not move close enough to the target at large sizes.

Patch 0.9.25.34

change

General

  • Updated secondary / critical strike animations.

Carnivore

  • Now restores 8 to 16.5 (based on level) mana when Cho'Gath kills a unit in addition to the normal health gain on kill.

Patch 0.9.25.21

change

Carnivore

  • Health restored per kill increased to 40 to 82 (based on level) from 30 to 72 (based on level).

Vorpal Spikes

  • Damage reduced to 20/30/40/50/60 from 40/60/80/100/120.
  • Ability power ratio reduced to 0.25 from 0.33.
  • Now also hits your primary target.

Feast

  • Cooldown reduced to 60 from 70.
  • Added a 0.5 ability power ratio.

Patch 0.9.22.16

buff

Feral Scream

  • Cooldown reduced to 17 seconds from 20.

Rupture

  • Range increased to 900 from 800.
  • Mana cost reduced to 80/90/100/110/120 from 80/95/110/125/140.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Base damage increased to 40/60/80/100/120 from 20/40/60/80/100.
  • Ability power ratio increased to 0.33 from 0.25.

Feast

  • Size per stack reduced to 0.7/0.11/0.15 from 0.9/0.15/0.18.

Patch 0.9.22.15

buff

General

  • Renamed to Cho'Gath, the Terror of the Void.
  • New voiceovers.
  • Base size increased.
  • Size per stack decreased slightly.

Stats

  • Movement speed increased to 315 from 310.
  • Base damage increased to 56 from 50.
  • Mana per level increased to 40 from 35.
  • Attack range increased to 130 from 125.

Rupture

  • Damage increased to 80/135/190/245/305 from 65/125/185/245/305.

Feral Scream

  • Damage increased to 80/130/180/240/300 from 60/120/180/240/300.

Vorpal Spikes

  • Range increased by 50.

Feast

  • Fixed a bug which caused the level up tooltip to not display.

Patch 0.9.22.7

buff

Carnivore

  • Heal amount increased to 30 to 72 (based on level) from 15 to 72 (based on level).

Patch 0.8.22.115

change

Feast

  • Fixed a bug causing the particle to display on champions incorrectly.

Patch 0.8.21.110

change

Feast

  • Max HP to consume is now a flat value of 300/550/800.
  • Will no longer penetrate abilities like Guardian Angel, Chronoshift, Undying Rage.

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Frequently Asked Questions
When was Cho'Gath last changed in League of Legends?
Cho'Gath was last adjusted in League of Legends Patch 25.23, released November 18, 2025. That patch changed Vorpal Spikes (Monster damage:).
How many times has Cho'Gath been buffed or nerfed in LoL?
Cho'Gath has been changed in 90 League of Legends patches: 28 buffs, 10 nerfs, 52 adjustments.
Is Cho'Gath getting buffed or nerfed in LoL?
Leaning down - 1 of Cho'Gath's last 3 changes was a nerf. Cho'Gath was last adjusted in Patch 25.23.
Was Cho'Gath changed in LoL Patch 26.16?
No - Cho'Gath was not changed in Patch 26.16. Its most recent change was in Patch 25.23.
What is the best Cho'Gath build in LoL?
Cho'Gath's most-played Top build in League of Legends runs core items Hextech Rocketbelt, Riftmaker and Dead Man's Plate, based on Emerald+ ranked games. The full guide on this page covers items, runes and skill order.
When was Cho'Gath released in League of Legends?
Cho'Gath was released in League of Legends in Patch 0.8.21.110 on July 17, 2009.