Azir vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Azir
based on 1,159 Azir vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Gragas
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several influential Azir vs. Gragas matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gragas..
Azir typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Gragas
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Who is Better, Azir or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Gragas, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes an ok counter to Gragas.
While Azir does have a higher winrate compared to Gragas, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Gragasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir 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 facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Gragas matchups, Azir is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter to Gragas. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often gets more CS relative to Gragas. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Azir versus Gragas build consist of Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Gragas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Azir had an average win rate of 50.1% battling Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Gragas as Azir, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Azir vs Gragas LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Gragas as Azir are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.