Gragas with Katarina
How to Synergize Gragas and Katarina
based on 1,664 Gragas with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Gragas Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Katarina, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Katarina does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Katarina 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 with Katarina.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Katarina does a poor job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Katarina
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no top champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Katarina is a very typical ally for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, she decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 47.2%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Gragas and Katarina that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players should be very careful when lining up Katarina allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Gragas players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Gragas and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Gragas and Katarina synergy build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for Gragas and Katarina pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% win rate overall.
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