Thresh vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Thresh
based on 2,666 Thresh vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Gragas
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Thresh versus Gragas counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gragas. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Gragas. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Gragas
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Who is Better, Thresh or Gragas?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a good counter to Gragas.
While Thresh does have a higher winrate than Gragas, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Gragasas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Gragas matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a decent counter to Gragas. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh to counter Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically picks up a lot less CS as Gragas. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Thresh versus Gragas build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Gragas than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when countering Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Gragas as Thresh, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Thresh vs Gragas clashes, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Gragas as Thresh are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.