Gragas vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Gragas
based on 790 Gragas vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Gragas vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Gragas against Taliyah matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Gragas usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Gragas or Taliyah?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when playing against Taliyah, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a bad counter for Taliyah.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter to Taliyah. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Gragas versus Taliyah build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Taliyah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 48.6% when countering Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Taliyah as Gragas, Gragas players 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 builds players picked for Gragas vs Taliyah counter picks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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