Leona vs Cho'Gath
How to Beat Cho'Gath as Leona
based on 3,198 Leona vs Cho'Gath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Cho'Gath Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Cho'Gath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cho'Gath as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Cho'Gath
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Advice to Win Against Cho'Gath
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.
Leona vs Cho'Gath Counter Stats
How to Counter Cho'Gath with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some significant Leona versus Cho'Gath matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cho'Gath’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Cho'Gath. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Leona often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Cho'Gath. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Cho'Gath
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Who is Better, Leona or Cho'Gath?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Cho'Gath, with a 51.4% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a good counter for Cho'Gath.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Cho'Gath, when facing one another, Leona also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Cho'Gath.
Additionally, Leona also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cho'Gath. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Cho'Gath matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Cho'Gath. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Cho'Gath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often picks up a lot less CS relative to Cho'Gath. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Leona versus Cho'Gath build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Cho'Gath than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when countering Cho'Gath with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Cho'Gath as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Leona vs Cho'Gath matchups, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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