Gragas with Galio
How to Synergize Gragas and Galio
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Gragas Galio Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Galio
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Galio
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 Galio Will Play
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
Gragas Galio Synergy Stats
How to Play with Galio as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Galio helps Gragas perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas tries to synergize with Galio, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Galio does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Galio on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Galio. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Galio.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Galio on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Galio does a decent job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Galio?
There is no top companion for Gragas that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Galio is a very typical companion for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 47.0%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Gragas and Galio that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Galio has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Galio allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Gragas and Galio together, you will not be providing your other teammates much attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Galio ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to synergize with Galio during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Gragas and Galio synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Galio than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Galio with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Gragas players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Galio with Gragas are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.