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Gragas with Elise

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How to Synergize Gragas and Elise

based on 235 Gragas with Elise pairs
Win Rate
43.4 %
K/D/A
2.13
Pick Rate
0.4 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We pull data from from millions of League matches straight from Riot Games each week. Gragas has been on the same team as Elise in 235 recently played, ranked games. By pooling so much great data from the hosts of League, we are confident that we can produce high quality, insightful builds to help Gragas play with Elise. It is very rare for Gragas to play with Elise as allies. This has only happened in approximately 0.4% of games with Gragas.

Gragas Elise Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Gragas has done a pathetic job of teaming up with Elise. Usually, he wins a dismal 43.4% of rounds the champions try and synergize their gameplay. If you want to win more matches as Gragas when fighting on the same team as Elise by learning how to better synergize your playstyle with her, then look into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Gragas vs Elise Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's RingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeHextech Alternator

Core Gragas Items

~22 Mins
Rabadon's DeathcapLich BaneCryptbloom

Optional Items

ShadowflameStormsurgeLuden's Companion

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Gragas to level upq
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Second ability for Gragas to level upe
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Last skill for Gragas to max outw

Runes

SorceryPhase RushManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceArmor
Gragas's passive ability p
Gragas's q ability q
Gragas's w ability w
Gragas's e ability e
Gragas's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Elise

Tips for Playing as Gragas with Elise

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 Elise Will Play

Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.

Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.

When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.

Gragas Elise Synergy Stats

Gragas Image
Win Rate
43.4 %
VS
Win Rate
56.6 %
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5.7
< Kills >
5.9
6
< Deaths >
5.8
7.1
< Assists >
7.2
1.3
< Killing Sprees >
1.36
153
< Minions Killed >
109
0.12
< Dragons Killed >
0.59
0.34
< Inhibitors >
0.38
1,624
< Physical Damage >
1,474
19,518
< Magic Damage >
18,364
565
< True Damage >
641
21,707
< Damage Dealt >
20,480
28,317
< Damage Taken >
29,773
11,375
< Gold Earned >
11,274
1.63
< Towers >
1.47
0.06
< Baron Takedowns >
0.14
9,658
< Total Healing >
12,331
14,508
< Experience >
14,035
21
< Vision Score >
21
10
< Wards Placed >
8
381
< Time Dealing CC >
414

How to Play with Elise as Gragas in LoL

The Gragas Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Elise helps Gragas perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Gragas tries to synergize with Elise, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Elise provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Elise on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Elise.

Additionally, when Gragas plays with Elise on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Elise does a decent job of covering Gragas in team fights.

Synergies between Gragas and Elise

Damage Types Compared

Gragas
Elise
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Gragas
Elise

Is Gragas better when played alongside Elise?

There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Elise is a terrible ally for Gragas. By locking into the same team as Gragas, she lowers their win rate by -4.5% to 43.4%. This shows that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Gragas and Elise that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.

Elise has a much greater difficulty compared to Gragas. That means Gragas players must be careful when enlisting Elise teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.

Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.

In contrast, by aligning Gragas and Elise together, you may not be granting your other allies much crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's kit.

Regardless of the skill of your Elise ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Gragas Players

How We Calculated Our Gragas Elise Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Gragas and Elise, we analyzed 235 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Gragas with Elise comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to pair well with Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.

The most crucial items to get in your Gragas and Elise synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Cryptbloom. When Gragas incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Elise than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 43.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Elise with these items in his kit.

To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing 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 rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.4% winrate overall.

If you need to see Gragas and Elise collaboration tips and builds for a an individual division, please select one from the selection menu shown above. By default, the statistics and tips and suggestions given are calculated using every game finished with these champs.