Brand vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Brand
based on 3,930 Brand vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Gragas
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Brand in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some vital Brand vs. Gragas matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gragas..
Brand typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Gragas. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Gragas
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Who is Better, Brand or Gragas?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Brand usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a good counter for Gragas.
While Brand does have a higher winrate compared to Gragas, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Brand into Gragas.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Gragas matchups, Brand is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Brand is an above average counter to Gragas. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Brand against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average picks up less CS relative to Gragas. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly 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 situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Brand versus Gragas build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Cryptbloom, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Gragas than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 53.0% when countering Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Gragas as Brand, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Brand vs Gragas clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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