Gragas with Akali
How to Synergize Gragas and Akali
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Gragas Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Akali
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Gragas Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Akali, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Akali does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Akali on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Akali does a poor job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best companion for Gragas that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Akali is a below average ally for Gragas. By being on the same team as Gragas, she drops their win rate by -1.7% to 46.2%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Gragas and Akali that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players should be cautious when enlisting Akali allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Gragas and Akali together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas to synergize with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Gragas and Akali synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Akali than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 46.2% helping carry Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Gragas players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.2% winrate overall.
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