Talk:Cho'Gath/@comment-15280970-20161012022220/@comment-15280970-20170129013611

^ You are right that picking long range pushers (Azir or Xerath for example) is the best bet. However they are good because they can make it a farm lane which benefits them a lot considering the advantages of farming (Azir scaling hard later in the game, Xerath being able to help lanes from far).

But I have seen this lane a lot of times in ranked games (not now, but a couple months before he was being picked) and theres not such champion with the range, mana sustain and pushing capabilities to consistently do that before cho gath stars to automatically recover all his health and mana. Usually they end up with an early advantage (40% lvl 4 small chogath losing some farm) that most of the times doesn't make it and then go OOM trying to get him even lower or they just accept their fate and focus their spells on farming and pushing. And then cho starts to recover all  his health  and mana and when he gets to lvl 6 there's no way to stop him. Even if they manage to get an edge (via ganks most of the time), Cho gath would just do the "losing ekko strategy" (aka building resistances, abyssal or even SV) and either way he becomes the unkilable monster that afk pushes all the game and ocassionaly gets a kill.

Mid lane tanks (Cho, Ekko, Vladimir) are a pain to deal with, even if you get an edge they can just buy resistances and there is no way to beat them. Unlike other mid lane picks, their punishment for not building damage is way too low in my opinion.