Gragas vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Gragas
based on 6,156 Gragas vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Gragas vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several important Gragas vs. Caitlyn counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Caitlyn’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Caitlyn..
Gragas typically has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Caitlyn. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Gragas or Caitlyn?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Caitlyn, with a 48.3% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes a poor counter to Caitlyn.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate than Caitlyn, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Caitlyn.
Furthermore, Gragas has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Caitlyn matchups, Caitlyn is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter to Caitlyn. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas to counter Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually accumulates less CS as Caitlyn. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Gragas versus Caitlyn build include Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Caitlyn than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Caitlyn with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Caitlyn as Gragas, Gragas players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Gragas vs Caitlyn clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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