2011-07-20, 01:23 AM
Mind if you guys give your opinions in regards to jungling with Cho'Gath?
He is currently classified as a Tier 1 jungler on Stonewall's jungler list.
I recently revived playing jungle Cho'Gath after reading (and seeing Stonewall's) videos about jungling with Cho'Gath. Made quite a bit of changes to my runes and mastery setups, and this time everything worked out when I tested it in a custom game. I'm now using it in games if my team needs someone to cover both tank and jungle roles. (I have used jungle Cho in one normal game [lost] and one ranked game [won] to this date)
(In normal games, I would normally use Amumu, but if I feel like to play something else for a change, I have the option of jungling with Cho. Though in ranked games, especially at my ELO, Amumu's constantly banned so I have to find something else to cover the jungling and tanking roles)
Early on, he's not blue reliant (he can take blue at level 3, and can live on whatever mana he has beforehand. Just make sure you make good use of Rupture before level 3). One of the things I like to do at the beginning is to start at mini-golems on the enemy side, and steal it. If I can, I might go ahead and steal their wraiths camp afterwards before hightailing back to my own jungle. That way I pretty much deprived the enemy jungler of experience, and I'm ahead of the enemy jungler a bit experience-wise
Though after level 6, he is quite scary in the counter-jungling department. He now has two abilities in which he can use to deprive enemy jungler very well: Smite and Rupture. If you want to go steal Elder Lizard, Ancient Golem, Dragon, or even Baron, you have two chances to do so, basically.
Though his downside is that his ganking capabilities is somewhat teammate-dependent. Rupture is a skillshot, and if you don't land it, that's a bad gank right there. Hence, it was argued by Stonewall himself that to have a successful gank with Cho, your teammate should have CCs that can disable the target enough for you to land a good Rupture.
What are your thoughts on jungle Cho? (besides the typical "Cho is better in lane and you know it". I already know that. That's not what I'm looking for)
He is currently classified as a Tier 1 jungler on Stonewall's jungler list.
I recently revived playing jungle Cho'Gath after reading (and seeing Stonewall's) videos about jungling with Cho'Gath. Made quite a bit of changes to my runes and mastery setups, and this time everything worked out when I tested it in a custom game. I'm now using it in games if my team needs someone to cover both tank and jungle roles. (I have used jungle Cho in one normal game [lost] and one ranked game [won] to this date)
(In normal games, I would normally use Amumu, but if I feel like to play something else for a change, I have the option of jungling with Cho. Though in ranked games, especially at my ELO, Amumu's constantly banned so I have to find something else to cover the jungling and tanking roles)
Early on, he's not blue reliant (he can take blue at level 3, and can live on whatever mana he has beforehand. Just make sure you make good use of Rupture before level 3). One of the things I like to do at the beginning is to start at mini-golems on the enemy side, and steal it. If I can, I might go ahead and steal their wraiths camp afterwards before hightailing back to my own jungle. That way I pretty much deprived the enemy jungler of experience, and I'm ahead of the enemy jungler a bit experience-wise
Though after level 6, he is quite scary in the counter-jungling department. He now has two abilities in which he can use to deprive enemy jungler very well: Smite and Rupture. If you want to go steal Elder Lizard, Ancient Golem, Dragon, or even Baron, you have two chances to do so, basically.
Though his downside is that his ganking capabilities is somewhat teammate-dependent. Rupture is a skillshot, and if you don't land it, that's a bad gank right there. Hence, it was argued by Stonewall himself that to have a successful gank with Cho, your teammate should have CCs that can disable the target enough for you to land a good Rupture.
What are your thoughts on jungle Cho? (besides the typical "Cho is better in lane and you know it". I already know that. That's not what I'm looking for)