How to win lane as Cho'Gath against Yone · 45.92% win rate (1,742 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Silence his Q3 — Q-zone, out-scale him.
Track: Yone's E — Soul Unbound (22–10s cooldown). He snaps back when it ends. Silence in it.
Read from Cho'Gath's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Yone.
This is Cho'Gath's own plan; across 1,742 pooled games the lane is leaning Yone.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Yone is even at level 1 and so am I — no sustain edge yet, so last-hit and set up rather than throwing a Rupture he can dash or rewind out of. |
| Level 2 | Yone | He pokes with Mortal Steel slashes and dashes back out of range, so without my full combo I can't pin him; farm through the chip on Carnivore sustain. |
| Level 3 | Cho'Gath | With Rupture and Feral Scream both online I Q-knockup into W-silence while Soul Unbound is down, locking him out of his Spirit Cleave shield and his escape. |
| Levels 4-5 | Cho'Gath | My Carnivore sustain and Q-W combo stabilize the lane — I out-trade a pre-item Yone and heal his poke back off the minions. |
| Level 6 | Cho'Gath | Feast is true damage that ignores the armour, MR and Spirit Cleave shield he builds, and executes him if he blinks in on Fate Sealed - my best window to flip a lead. |
| First item | Even / skill | My first health item lets me eat a 14-second Spirit Cleave, but Soul Unbound at 10 seconds starts buying him outs, so the lane levels back here. |
| Two+ items | Yone | Past two items he kites my slow Rupture with Mortal Steel dashes and Soul Unbound rewinds and out-duels my tankiness — play safe, hold my stacks, and fight with my team. |
Yone is genuinely even with me levels 1-3, and that is a fight I can hold. His Mortal Steel slashes and his Spirit Cleave cone chip me, but Carnivore tops me back up off every minion kill, so I never have to back from poke alone. The key rule: do not throw Rupture at a Yone who still has Soul Unbound up - he just rewinds out of the knockup and slow. Bait or wait out that E, which is 22 seconds at rank 1, then Q-into-W to silence him out of his own combo.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Cho'Gath's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Cho'Gath vs Yone 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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Yone, slightly — Cho'Gath wins 45.92% of 1,742 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Yone has a small statistical edge (54.08% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Yone has the slight edge (Cho'Gath wins 45.92%), though it stays close.
Cho'Gath takes Grasp of the Undying on the Resolve tree with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, and Precision secondary (Triumph and Legend: Haste) vs Yone.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Executioner's Calling (≈800g) — cuts his healing. Build Heartsteel (stacks with Feast forever) first, then Riftmaker / Thornmail, with Plated Steelcaps.
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