Gragas vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Gragas
based on 945 Gragas vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Anivia
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 Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Gragas vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Gragas in LoL
The stats provided here show some important Gragas versus Anivia counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Anivia..
Gragas normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Anivia
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Who is Better, Gragas or Anivia?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually wins when playing against Anivia, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a good counter for Anivia.
While Gragas does have a higher winrate compared to Anivia, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Anivia.
Furthermore, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Anivia matchups, Gragas is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gragas is a decent counter to Anivia. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gragas to counter Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Anivia. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Gragas versus Anivia build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Anivia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 51.2% battling Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Anivia as Gragas, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Gragas vs Anivia counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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