Imperial Mandate Cho'Gath build with runes and items. Imperial Mandate Cho'Gath guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Imperial Mandate Cho'Gath build in League of Legends Patch 25.S1.3!
You support through disrupting fights, being annoying, Slowing/Healing/Buffing and soaking damage.
How to play
General
You rush Imperial Mandate. That is only mandatory item for this build. Then you need to adapt to an enemy team.
Your CC triggers Glacial Augument that slows AOE. All Slows trigger Font of Life AND Imperial Mandate, healing and buffing your allies.
Since LoL Patch 14.1 Imperial Mandate is changed. Now you need your team to proc it to deal any damage. So you need to play a little bit differently. Do not spam mindlessly. Try coordinating it with your team - when they are about to poke or when they go in.
Font of Life heal can trigger various support items, like Ardent Censer or Staff of Flowing Water or even Moonstone Renewer!
You need to adapt your items to the game. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR. They heavy on AD? Buy Armor. You need some damage? Well buy that.
Tips and Tricks
Champion
Keep Feral Scream (W) for priority targets. Enemy team has champions that dive and go in? Keep W for them.
You can be a great peeler if needed, thanks to Rupture (Q) + Feral Scream (W) + Feast (R).
Universal skill order for Cho'Gath: max Q for push/poke/healing, max W for fights, max E versus lots of melee champs in an enemy team.
Do not wait for 'special moment' to use your R early on. It is OK to just stack it on minions to get more survivability.
If you are not playing a tank or support version, consider not eating siege minions - it is more gold for your carries, and they need gold more than you do!
Riot
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.