General
- Cho'Gath is the first champion to receive a second Legendary skin (although Tristana has also two skins although one is legacy and the other one is available). has two skins both of which are Legacy and
- Cho'Gath's dance references Fantasmic! by Mickey Mouse.
- Cho'Gath has the sixth highest ability base damage at Level 18.
- Riot created an Adobe Flash minigame called Cho'Gath Eats the World for April Fool's Day 2010.
- A red ring appearing underneath enemy champions signals using will kill them.
Development
- Cho'Gath is the only Voidborn whose name has more than six letters.
- Cho'Gath likely comes from Shoggoth from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos;
- Other influences might be the Ogre Magi Cho'Gall from Warcraft and Ku'gath from Warhammer 40,000 (whom Cho'Gath resembles).
- Cho'Gath resembles the aforementioned Ku'gath, a Carnifex also from Warhammer 40,000, Destoroyah from Godzilla, and Malebolgia / Violator from Spawn.
Quotes
- "Ah, the tangled webs we weave" references Marmion by Walter Scott.
- Cho'Gath shares this quote with .
- When using "Omnomnomnom" "Omnomnomnom" referencing the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. he will sometimes exclaim
- "I'll bite your legs off!" references the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- "It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?" references either Mrs. Niggerbaiter Explodes from Monty Python's Flying Circus or .
- "What, what what?" references Sheila Broflovski from South Park.
- "I like a man who grins when he fights!" references the phrase spoken by Winston Churchill.
- "One can survive everything nowadays, except death!" references Oscar Wilde.
- "Cake or death?" is a question asked by Eddie Izzard Dress to Kill.
- The answer given was "Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. Sorry..."
- "Anything less would be uncivilized" references Gillette's Right Guard deodorant commercials.
- "Maximum Cho'Gath" might be referencing Crysis.
- "Blue screen resolved" references the Blue Screen of Death from Microsoft Windows.
- He and "Crush them underfoot". share the quote
Skins
- He is fighting several soldiers geared like Helmet Bro.
- He shares this theme with:
- He references the Loch Ness Monster.
- He shares this theme with:
- A banner reading 'Cho'Gath Rules' can be seen in the background.
- He shares this theme with:
- He references 19th Century British gentlemen.
- He was the first to get a new voiceover with a skin.
- He has his own dedicated section in the game's Latin American server.
- He discusses (in extremely old-fashonied and correct Spanish) the proper use of game terminology, going so far as to warning players to avoid English-Spanish mutations such as gankear ('ganking') and instead use the actual term emboscar ('ambush')
- He shares this theme with:
- He resembles Machinedramon from Digimon.
- He is the Tokyo miniboss in Cho'Gath Eats the World.
- This is 451,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts.
- This in turn is almost 2600 times the power Earth receives from the Sun.
- All this power releases more energy than 2000 Tsar Bombas / 100,000,000,000 Tonnes of TNT in a single second.
- This in turn is almost 2600 times the power Earth receives from the Sun.
is powered by '451 Exawatt Omnisonic Speakers'
- This is 451,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts.
- and pre-rework can be seen in the background.
- He shares this theme with:
- He celebrates the Jurassic World premiere.
- He is based on the movie's Indominus rex.
- He is most definitely thematically tied to his Jurassic self considering the only difference is the presence/lack of flesh.
- He shares this theme with:
Relations
- Cho'Gath, the Voidborn.
- Runeterra and thus is his enemy.
- on the other hand seeks to facilitate the crossing and thus is his ally.
seeks to keep the Voidborn from crossing over to
, , , and each belong to different member species of the collective known as - Runeterra and thus is his enemy.