Gragas vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Gragas
based on 1,372 Gragas vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Gragas vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Gragas versus Kindred counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kindred..
Gragas typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kindred. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Kindred
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Who is Better, Gragas or Kindred?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when taking on Kindred, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes an ok counter for Kindred.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate than Kindred, when facing one another, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Kindred.
Additionally, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter to Kindred. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often gets more CS compared to Kindred. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gragas versus Kindred build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Kindred than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 49.9% battling Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating Kindred as Gragas, Gragas players should use 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 we have analyed for Gragas vs Kindred counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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