Gragas vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Gragas
based on 1,507 Gragas vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Gragas vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some critical Gragas vs. Soraka counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Soraka. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Gragas normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Soraka
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Who is Better, Gragas or Soraka?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when taking on Soraka, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes an ok counter for Soraka.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate than Soraka, when facing one another, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Soraka.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to counter Soraka 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 stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually racks up much more CS compared to Soraka. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Gragas versus Soraka build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Soraka than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 49.0% battling Soraka with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Soraka as Gragas, you 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 combinations that we analyzed for Gragas vs Soraka matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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