Gragas vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Gragas
based on 944 Gragas vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Gragas vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some valuable Gragas versus Kassadin counter statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Gragas typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kassadin. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Gragas or Kassadin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 44.0% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a bad counter for Kassadin.
While Gragas does have a much lower winrate compared to Kassadin, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Gragas into Kassadin.
Furthermore, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a garbage counter for Kassadin. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often racks up less CS as Kassadin. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Gragas versus Kassadin build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Kassadin than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 44.0% when countering Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Kassadin as Gragas, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Gragas vs Kassadin clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kassadin as Gragas are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.