How to win lane as Cho'Gath against Yone · 49.28% win rate over 483 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| 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 | Even / skill | 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 armor, MR, and shields he builds and executes him if he commits a Fate Sealed all-in onto me — my best window to flip a lead. |
| First item | Even / skill | My first health item lets me eat his empowered Spirit Cleave, but Soul Unbound starts buying him outs, so the lane levels back toward even 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 empowered Spirit Cleave 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, then Q-into-W to silence him out of his own combo.
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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