Gragas vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Gragas
based on 1,058 Gragas vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Aatrox
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Advice to Win Against Aatrox
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Gragas vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Gragas against Aatrox counter statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Aatrox..
Gragas usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Aatrox. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Gragas or Aatrox?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Aatrox, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a poor counter to Aatrox.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate compared to Aatrox, when facing one another, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gragas into Aatrox.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a bad counter for Aatrox. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gragas in order to counter Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas on average accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Aatrox. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gragas versus Aatrox build consist of Everfrost, Fimbulwinter, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Gragas used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Aatrox than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Aatrox with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Aatrox as Gragas, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Gragas vs Aatrox clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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