How to win lane as Cho'Gath against Vladimir · 50.67% win rate over 594 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Vlad's level-1 is famously weak, but you have no sustain edge over his Transfusion yet either — contest his last-hits and set the lane up rather than forcing a trade you can't finish. |
| Level 2 | Cho'Gath | With no Sanguine Pool before 6, your Rupture-into-Feral Scream is a clean combo that silences his Q heal and E charge — the cleanest burst window you'll get all game. |
| Level 3 | Cho'Gath | Your Carnivore sustain, Vorpal Spikes waveclear, and slow-on-Rupture let you out-farm and out-trade a pre-Rylai Vlad who can't stick to you in extended fights. |
| Levels 4-5 | Vladimir | At 6 he gains Sanguine Pool the same level you get Feast — he pools untargetable through your knockup, silence, and execute and heals off it, so the spike favours him unless you bait the pool first. |
| Level 6 | Cho'Gath | First-item: your tank-HP spike plus a Feast stack out-trades his pre-Rylai damage, and his pool is still on a long cooldown — force the extended all-in now. |
| First item | Even / skill | Skill: whether 6 goes your way hinges on baiting Sanguine Pool before you commit — pool down, your combo lands; pool up, it all whiffs. |
| Two+ items | Vladimir | Two AP items in, his E Tides of Blood does percent-max-HP magic damage that scales with your Feast stacking while his pool resets your casts — he out-scales the 1v1, so group and peel. |
Pre-6 neither of you has a real kill threat, but the key fact is Vlad has no Sanguine Pool yet — this is the only window where your combo can't be pooled out of. Throw Rupture at where he'll step to E you (not as a poke he strolls out of), then immediately Feral Scream to silence both his Q Transfusion heal and his E Tides of Blood charge, and walk. You sustain the trade back with Carnivore last-hits and Vorpal Spikes. Don't free-cast Rupture or let him E you uncontested — his Tides of Blood poke charges up and adds real chip if you ignore it.
The full Cho'Gath vs Vladimir report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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