Gragas with Alistar
How to Synergize Gragas and Alistar
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Gragas Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Gragas Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Alistar, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could signal that Alistar helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Alistar 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 synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Alistar on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect synergy for Gragas that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, Alistar is a superb teammate for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he raises their win rate by 4.2% to 52.1%. This clearly indicates that there is an important strategic relationship between Gragas and Alistar that results in them performing better together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players should be careful when finding Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Gragas and Alistar together, you may not be granting your other teammates much sustained damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Gragas and Alistar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 52.1% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Gragas players should equip 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 sets players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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