Gragas vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Gragas
based on 644 Gragas vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Gragas vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several influential Gragas against Kalista counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista..
Gragas often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Kalista. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Kalista
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Who is Better, Gragas or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when taking on Kalista, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Gragas does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Kalista.
Additionally, Gragas also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Kalista matchups, Gragas is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a decent counter to Kalista. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas typically gets less CS as Kalista. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gragas versus Kalista build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Kalista than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 50.2% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Kalista as Gragas, Gragas players 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 Kalista counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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