Gragas with Brand
How to Synergize Gragas and Brand
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Gragas Brand Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Brand
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Gragas Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Brand helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is paired with Brand, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Brand does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Brand.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Brand on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Brand?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Brand is a very typical ally for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Gragas and Brand that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when enlisting Brand allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Gragas players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gragas and Brand together, you will not be granting your other allies enough AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Gragas and Brand synergy build include Lich Bane, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Brand than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when playing alongside Brand with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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