Rod of Ages Cho'Gath Build
Rod of Ages Cho'Gath build with runes and items. Rod of Ages Cho'Gath guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Rod of Ages Cho'Gath build in League of Legends Patch 14.21!
Updated: 2024-10-09 ()
TLDR
Starting items
Quick Skill Order
Q
W
E
Final items
Quick Runes
Summoner spells
Rod of Ages Cho'Gath Runes
Sorcery
Precision
Passive
How it works
General
- You rush Rod of Ages.
- You play as Mage with more emphasis on sustain and mana.
- You buy AP items and adapt to an enemy team.
How to play
General
- Playing Rod of Ages Cho'Gath, your default rush is of course - Rod of Ages. You want to stack its passive as early as possible.
- Since you have HP synergy with your abilities, you can get Heartsteel as first item. You will play more like AP Tank with lots of health.
- Rod of Ages gives sustain with its second Passive. It recovers both health and mana.
- You can play this build very safely. Sustain from Rod of Ages alone is very powerful in ARAM. If you want to sustain even harder, you can get Kaenic Rookern (anti poke), Spirit Visage (more sustain) or even get Second Wind rune from Resolve.
- In cases, when an enemy team is full of tanks and HP stackers and you need to counter them, go Liandry's Torment.
- Adapt to an enemy team. They full of tanks and they rush MR? You rush Void Staff as #2 or #3 item. Their team is Soraka, Mundo or champs with healing? Rush Oblivion Orb as #2 item (upgrade to Morellonomicon as 4th or 5th item). They stack HP? You buy Liandry's Torment.
- Somebody is going after you each fight? Their assassins are focusing you on sight? Always getting R by Fizz? Rush Zhonya's Hourglass.
- Good MR item that works well with Rod of Ages is Spirit Visage and Kaenic Rookern.
Tips and Tricks
General
- Keep 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 Q + W + 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!
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.
Skill Order
- RuptureQ
- Feral ScreamW
- Vorpal SpikesE
- FeastR
Items
Starting items
Rush this
Optional #1 rush
Boots
Good items
OK items
Against high MR
Sustain even harder
Counter enemy
For the last fight
Example final build