Gragas vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Gragas
based on 3,079 Gragas vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Gragas vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Gragas against Master Yi matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Master Yi..
Gragas normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Master Yi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Gragas or Master Yi?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Master Yi, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a bad counter for Master Yi.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate than Master Yi, when facing one another, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Gragas into Master Yi.
Additionally, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a bad counter to Master Yi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often picks up much more CS relative to Master Yi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Gragas versus Master Yi build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Master Yi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Master Yi with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Master Yi as Gragas, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Gragas vs Master Yi LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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