Gragas vs Qiyana
How to Beat Qiyana as Gragas
based on 868 Gragas vs Qiyana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Qiyana Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Qiyana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Qiyana as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Qiyana
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.
Gragas vs Qiyana Counter Stats
How to Counter Qiyana with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Gragas against Qiyana counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Qiyana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Qiyana..
Gragas typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Qiyana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Qiyana
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Who is Better, Gragas or Qiyana?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually wins when playing against Qiyana, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a good counter to Qiyana.
While Gragas does have a higher win rate than Qiyana, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Qiyana.
Additionally, Gragas also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Qiyana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting 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 Qiyana matchups, Gragas is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a decent counter for Qiyana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Qiyana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gragas in order to counter Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Qiyana. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly 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 situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Gragas versus Qiyana build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Qiyana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 51.4% battling Qiyana with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Qiyana 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 chose for Gragas vs Qiyana battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.4% win rate overall.
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