Gragas vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Gragas
based on 855 Gragas vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Gragas vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Gragas against Heimerdinger counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Heimerdinger..
Gragas usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Gragas or Heimerdinger?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Heimerdinger, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a bad counter to Heimerdinger.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Gragas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Heimerdinger.
Moreover, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger 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 late stage team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter to Heimerdinger. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Gragas versus Heimerdinger build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Heimerdinger than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Heimerdinger as Gragas, you should equip 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 builds players picked for Gragas vs Heimerdinger clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Heimerdinger as Gragas are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.