Akali vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Akali
based on 3,955 Akali vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Gragas
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Akali vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several strategic Akali against Gragas counter statistics that may help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gragas. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Akali usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Gragas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akali and Gragas
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Who is Better, Akali or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Akali makes a good counter for Gragas.
While Akali does have a higher win rate compared to Gragas, when facing one another, Akali also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Akali into Gragasas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Akali also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Gragas matchups, Akali is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Akali is a decent counter to Gragas. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akali against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akali in order to counter Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Gragas. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Akali versus Gragas build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Gragas than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average winrate of 51.0% battling Gragas with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Gragas as Akali, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Akali vs Gragas counters, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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