Annie with Gragas
How to Synergize Annie and Gragas
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Annie Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Annie with Gragas
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Advice to Understand How Gragas Will Play
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.
Annie Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Annie in LoL
The Annie Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Annie perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is paired with Gragas, she observes a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This could signal that Gragas does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Gragas on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Annie in team fights.
Synergies between Annie and Gragas
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Is Annie better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Annie that will always be her top synergy. Yet, overall, Gragas is a terrible ally for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, he drops their win rate by -4.9% to 44.4%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Annie and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Annie. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gragas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Annie players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Annie and Gragas together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Annie in order to pair well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Annie and Gragas synergy build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 44.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gragas with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Annie players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Annie and Gragas pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Gragas with Annie are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.