Katarina vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Katarina
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Katarina vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Gragas
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Katarina vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Katarina versus Gragas matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gragas. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Gragas. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Gragas
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Who is Better, Katarina or Gragas?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when playing against Gragas, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a good counter to Gragas.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate than Gragas, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Gragasas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Gragas matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter for Gragas. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina to counter Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically gets a similar amount of CS as Gragas. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Gragas build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Gragas than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when playing against Gragas with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Gragas as Katarina, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Gragas counters, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Gragas as Katarina are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.