Cho’Gath vs Lissandra Counter Pick

Lissandra’s kit is built around chaining crowd control, Ring of Frost’s root into Frozen Tomb’s stun, but Cho’Gath’s own engage tools interrupt that sequence often enough to give him the edge here, winning 54.7% of 139 games on patch 16.13.1. Rupture’s knockup can catch her mid-cast before Glacial Path lets her escape to her ice claw, and once Feral Scream’s silence lands, Frozen Tomb becomes unusable at the exact moment it matters most.

Health totals sit close at level 18, 2,242 for Cho’Gath against 2,490 for Lissandra, but her 22 armor and 93.4 armor at 18 give Vorpal Spikes and basic attacks enough bite to matter through the fight. Lissandra’s 325 move speed is the slowest in this pairing, limiting her ability to kite Cho’Gath’s own 345 once Rupture’s slow is applied. Feast remains the closing move: with no true-damage answer of her own, Lissandra has to survive on Frozen Tomb’s self-cast healing, which rarely outpaces a full combo from a difficulty-5 tank who only needs to land two of his four abilities to win the exchange outright. Lissandra’s Mage classification and Mid role align with Cho’Gath’s own Mid listing, and her 620 base health trails his 644, a small gap at level 1 that widens considerably by level 18.