Riven vs Cho’Gath Counter Pick

467 games on patch 16.13.1 return 44.3% for Riven, and Cho’Gath’s advantage is built on two things her kit cannot interact with: growing maximum health and true damage.

• Feast deals a high amount of true damage and permanently raises Cho’Gath’s maximum health on a kill. Riven’s 33 base armor and 107.8 at level 18 are irrelevant to it, and Valor blocks incoming damage without answering an execute.
• Damage type. Cho’Gath’s output is magic, striking Riven’s 32 magic resist, while Riven’s physical damage meets 38 base armor rising to 114.5.
• Feral Scream silences. A silenced Riven cannot continue a Broken Wings chain, which is where most of her burst lives.

He also matches her physically better than his class suggests: 69 attack damage against 64, 644 base health against 630, and the same 125 attack range, with Carnivore restoring health and mana on every unit killed so his trades reset for free. Rupture pops her into the air from a distance, a hard stop on any approach. He also moves at 345 against Riven’s 340, so walking out of a bad exchange is not free. The realistic route is to pressure before the health stacking begins and to force short exchanges while the silence is on cooldown; a difficulty rating of 8 against his 5 puts the execution burden on one side only. Full ability text: Cho’Gath.