Gragas with Hecarim
How to Synergize Gragas and Hecarim
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Gragas Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Gragas Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Gragas perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas tries to synergize with Hecarim, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Hecarim provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Hecarim on the same team, 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 Hecarim.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Hecarim on the same team, he often takes less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Hecarim
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no perfect ally for Gragas that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Hecarim is a very typical companion for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Gragas and Hecarim that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Hecarim has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means you should be very careful when lining up Hecarim comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Gragas and Hecarim together, you will not be granting your team very much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to synergize with Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Gragas and Hecarim synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with many other common builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside Hecarim with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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