Akshan vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Akshan
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Akshan vs Gragas Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Akshan
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Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Akshan vs. Gragas matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Gragas..
Akshan typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their counter does. Typically, they takes less damage than Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Gragas, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a bad counter for Gragas.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate compared to Gragas, when they face off with one another, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Akshan into Gragas.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Gragas matchups, Gragas is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Akshan is a garbage counter for Gragas. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Akshan against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan on average accumulates more CS compared to Gragas. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Akshan versus Gragas build consist of Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they performed much better when facing Gragas than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 47.4% when playing against Gragas with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Gragas as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Akshan vs Gragas counters, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
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