Cho'Gath: Champion Spotlight | Gameplay - League of Legends
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the Terror of the Void
Cho'Gath
Cho’Gath turns the living world into fuel for its own growth. This Void creature can transform consumed matter into a larger, tougher body or expel it as deadly spines.
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Cho'Gath on screen
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- The Void
Biography & reading · THE RUNE
Riot Games · Complete Universe biography
Cho'Gath’s story
There is a place between dimensions, between worlds. To some it is known as the Outside, to others it is the Unknown. To those that truly know, however, it is called the Void. Despite its name, the Void is not an empty place, but rather the home of unspeakable things - horrors not meant for minds of men. Cho'Gath is a creature born of the Void, a thing whose true nature is so awful most will not speak its name. Its fellows have been poking at the walls that divide dimensions for a crack, a way into Runeterra, where they can visit their own personal paradise of horror upon the world. They are called the Voidborn, creatures so ancient and terrible that they have been removed from history altogether. It is rumored that the Voidborn command vast armies of unspeakable creatures on other worlds, that they were once driven from Runeterra by powerful magic lost to antiquity.
If such tales are true, then the rumors that follow must be equally true - that one day, the Voidborn will return. Even now, something dark stirs in Icathia. Cho'Gath, an alien creature of malice and violence, causes all but the most stalwart to cringe in fear. Cho'Gath even appears to feed on its predations, growing and swelling as it gorges itself. Worse yet, the creature is intelligent, perhaps greatly so, hinting at the sentient horror of the Void.
A place in Runeterra
The Void
The Void is described as an unknowable absence beyond the world, associated with the Watchers and a hunger directed toward undoing existence. Contact with it can break the assumptions—and minds—of those who encounter it.
Different characters provide different perspectives: survivors endure its touch, devotees mistake it for salvation, and entities pursue their own forms of consumption. These perspectives should not be collapsed into the claim that every creature of the Void has identical knowledge or motives.
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Cho'Gath, in detail
Their part in the world
Connected characters
Kog'Maw
the Mouth of the Abyss
Kog’Maw investigates the world by biting into it. This Void creature’s curiosity makes it dangerous even without an explicitly malicious purpose: exploration can become an uncontrolled feeding frenzy.
Explore Kog'Maw →
Kha'Zix
the Voidreaver
Kha’Zix changes in response to difficult prey. Its evolution includes growing intelligence as well as physical adaptations, turning a once-mindless Void creature into a hunter capable of planning and exploiting fear.
Explore Kha'Zix →
Vel'Koz
the Eye of the Void
Vel’Koz studies the material world for weaknesses the Void can exploit. Its curiosity is destructive rather than detached: gathering knowledge can involve plasma attacks and disruption of the reality being examined.
Explore Vel'Koz →The source archive
Sources & further reading
Biography by Riot Games; reading notes and contextual chapters by The Rune. Official illustrations and videos are credited to Riot Games; development art depicts the design process.