Gragas with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Gragas and Heimerdinger
based on 595 Gragas with Heimerdinger pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Gragas Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Heimerdinger, he observes a noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Heimerdinger doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Heimerdinger. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no top companion for Gragas that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Heimerdinger is a very bad ally for Gragas. By locking into the same team as Gragas, he decreases their win rate by -3.4% to 44.5%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Gragas and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players should be careful when finding Heimerdinger teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gragas and Heimerdinger together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Heimerdinger ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to pair well with Heimerdinger during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Gragas and Heimerdinger synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Heimerdinger than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 44.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Heimerdinger with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against 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 players used for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.5% win rate overall.
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