Gragas vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Gragas
based on 1,159 Gragas vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Gragas vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Gragas vs. Azir matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Azir..
Gragas usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Azir
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Who is Better, Gragas or Azir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when taking on Azir, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes an ok counter for Azir.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate than Azir, when facing one another, Gragas also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Azir.
Furthermore, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter to Azir. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gragas to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas often picks up less CS relative to Azir. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Gragas versus Azir build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Azir than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 49.9% battling Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Azir 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 combinations we have analyed for Gragas vs Azir counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
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