How to win lane as Master Yi against Cho'Gath · 47.4% win rate over 192 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Cho'Gath | Cho'Gath's Rupture and Vorpal Spikes zone your weak level 1 autos before you have Wuju Style. |
| Level 2 | Cho'Gath | At level 2 his knockup plus spikes still out-pokes your mana-starved short trades. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | By level 3 your Q-E-W kit lets you trade true damage back evenly, so it's a skill window. |
| Levels 4-5 | Master Yi | Levels 4-5 favour you because his long cooldowns and thin pre-Warmog sustain can't answer your Wuju Style pressure. |
| Level 6 | Master Yi | At 6 you're still ahead in the farming lane since his Feast is a defensive/execute tool, not lane dominance. |
| First item | Master Yi | At first item your attack-speed spike lets you out-DPS his cooldown-gated poke. |
| Two+ items | Cho'Gath | With two items a Feast-stacked Cho becomes an un-executable tank wall that outscales your single-target burst. |
Cho'Gath outranges and out-pokes you at levels 1-2 with Rupture and Vorpal Spikes while you have no mana buffer and weak autos; respect his knockup and just soak XP rather than force autos into his passive wave-clear.
The full Master Yi vs Cho'Gath 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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