Talk:Cho'Gath/@comment-24336345-20140710094500/@comment-5211662-20140827062227

To be honest, even though Cho'Gath has the highest base AD alongside Skarner, Spellblade items are meh on Cho'Gath. This is because not only his abilities have high cooldowns, but only two of them (besides his ulti) can actually proc Spellblade.

In adittion, there are problems with all Spellblade items on Cho'Gath:

Trinity Force has poor synergy with his kit and the way he is best built, which is as an AP tank. Trinity Force offers stats that are wasted on Cho'Gath, such as AD and critical chance. The combination of Wit's End and/or Nashor's Tooth and a Rylai's Crystal Scepter achieves the same effect of a Trinity Force, and while they demand 2 item slots, they at least have useful stats for Cho'Gath.

Lich Bane is good but only if you are building lots of AP items on Cho'Gath. This item should not be used if you are building him as a tank, because it offers no defensive stats, and without a lot of AP items, the proc has poor damage. Even then, Cho'Gath has a hard time procing Lich Bane's passive due to the high cooldowns and because Vorpal Spikes cannot activate Spellblade.

Iceborn Gauntlet is the last option and is actually decent on tank builds. Unfortunately, Cho'Gath still has the cooldown problems. Rylai's Crystal Scepter on my opinion is a better option if you want to slow down your enemies. If you want mana, cooldown reduction and armor, Frozen Heart gives all that, and it gives more armor, and better yet, a passive that reduces the enemy's attack speed.

Spellblade items are only decent on Cho'Gath, and are by no means core items. Even though Cho'Gath has the highest base AD alongside Skarner, Spellblade items aren't as efficent on Cho'Gath as they are on Skarner, due to the problems I said above.