Gragas vs Syndra
How to Beat Syndra as Gragas
based on 1,489 Gragas vs Syndra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Syndra Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Syndra as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Syndra
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 Syndra
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
Gragas vs Syndra Counter Stats
How to Counter Syndra with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some valuable Gragas against Syndra counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Syndra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Syndra..
Gragas typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Syndra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Syndra
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Who is Better, Gragas or Syndra?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when taking on Syndra, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes an ok counter to Syndra.
While Gragas does have a higher winrate compared to Syndra, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Syndra.
Moreover, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Syndra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Syndra matchups, Gragas is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a decent counter for Syndra. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Syndra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Syndra during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often gets less CS as Syndra. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Gragas versus Syndra build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Syndra than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Syndra with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Syndra as Gragas, you should use 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 combinations that we analyzed for Gragas vs Syndra fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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