Zed vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Zed
based on 2,697 Zed vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Gragas
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several critical Zed versus Gragas counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gragas..
Zed typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Gragas. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Gragas
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Who is Better, Zed or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gragas, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Zed makes an ok counter for Gragas.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Gragas, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Gragasas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Gragas matchups, Gragas is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter for Gragas. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zed against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zed 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Gragas. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Zed versus Gragas build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Profane Hydra, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Gragas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 49.5% when playing against Gragas with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Gragas as Zed, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Zed vs Gragas counters, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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