Alistar vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Alistar
based on 1,139 Alistar vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Gragas
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some valuable Alistar versus Gragas matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gragas. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Gragas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Gragas
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Who is Better, Alistar or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when taking on Gragas, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter for Gragas.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Gragas, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Gragasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Gragas matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Gragas. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often gets a lot less CS as Gragas. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Gragas build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Gragas than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 51.7% when countering Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Gragas as Alistar, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Alistar vs Gragas counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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