Gragas vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Gragas
based on 1,139 Gragas vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Gragas vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Gragas against Alistar counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Gragas usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Alistar
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Who is Better, Gragas or Alistar?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Alistar, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a bad counter to Alistar.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate than Alistar, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Alistar.
Furthermore, Gragas has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas often gets much more CS as Alistar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Gragas versus Alistar build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Alistar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Alistar as Gragas, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Gragas vs Alistar LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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