Gragas vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Gragas
based on 743 Gragas vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Gragas vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Gragas in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Gragas versus Zilean matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Gragas usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Zilean. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Zilean
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Who is Better, Gragas or Zilean?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zilean, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes an ok counter for Zilean.
While Gragas does have a higher win rate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Zilean.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Zilean matchups, Gragas is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a decent counter for Zilean. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Zilean.
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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 Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas often picks up more CS as Zilean. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many 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 Zilean build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Zilean than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when countering Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Zilean as Gragas, Gragas players should equip 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 players chose for Gragas vs Zilean counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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