Vi vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Vi
based on 1,904 Vi vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Gragas
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Vi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several influential Vi against Gragas counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gragas..
Vi normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Gragas. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vi and Gragas
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Who is Better, Vi or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vi usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 53.3% win rate. Therefore, Vi makes a great counter for Gragas.
While Vi does have a higher winrate than Gragas, when facing one another, Vi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Vi into Gragas.
Moreover, Vi has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vi vs Gragas matchups, Vi is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vi is a great counter to Gragas. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vi against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vi to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Gragas. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Vi versus Gragas build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Vi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Gragas than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 53.3% when playing against Gragas with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Gragas as Vi, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Vi vs Gragas counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
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