Gragas vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Gragas
based on 952 Gragas vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Gragas vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Gragas in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Gragas against Viktor counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Viktor..
Gragas normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Viktor. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Viktor
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Who is Better, Gragas or Viktor?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when trying to fight Viktor, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a bad counter to Viktor.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Viktor, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Gragas into Viktor.
Furthermore, Gragas has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gragas is a terribly counter to Viktor. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Viktor during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas most often accumulates less CS relative to Viktor. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Gragas versus Viktor build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Viktor than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when countering Viktor with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Viktor 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 rune builds players used for Gragas vs Viktor battles, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.
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