Gragas with Akshan
How to Synergize Gragas and Akshan
based on 1,300 Gragas with Akshan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Gragas Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 Akshan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akshan helps Gragas perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Akshan, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Akshan provides protection for him to deal more damage or that their support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akshan.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Akshan on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no ideal synergy for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Akshan is a very typical teammate for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, they raises their win rate by 0.4% to 48.3%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Gragas and Akshan that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Akshan teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting together, Gragas players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Akshan together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Akshan teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to pair well with Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Gragas and Akshan synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Akshan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Gragas and Akshan pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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