Gragas vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Gragas
based on 1,889 Gragas vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Gragas vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Gragas in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several critical Gragas against Kayle counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle..
Gragas typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kayle. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Kayle
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Who is Better, Gragas or Kayle?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 46.0% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate compared to Kayle, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Gragas into Kayle.
Additionally, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a much 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 garbage counter for Kayle. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas to counter Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas often picks up less CS compared to Kayle. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Gragas versus Kayle build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Kayle than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when countering Kayle with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Kayle as Gragas, Gragas players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Gragas vs Kayle counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.0% winrate overall.
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