Elise vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Elise
based on 498 Elise vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Gragas
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Elise in LoL
The stats provided here show several significant Elise against Gragas matchup stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Gragas..
Elise normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Gragas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Gragas
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Who is Better, Elise or Gragas?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gragas, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Elise makes an ok counter for Gragas.
While Elise does have a lower winrate than Gragas, when facing one another, Elise also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Elise into Gragasas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise vs Gragas matchups, Gragas 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.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter for Gragas. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Elise against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to counter Gragas during both the early game 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 tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Gragas. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Elise versus Gragas build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Gragas than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Elise boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when countering Gragas with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Gragas as Elise, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Elise vs Gragas fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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