Gragas with Kayn
How to Synergize Gragas and Kayn
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Gragas Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Gragas Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kayn helps Gragas perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Kayn, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kayn supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Kayn on the same team, 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 with Kayn.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Kayn on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kayn does a decent job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no one best synergy for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Kayn is a decent teammate for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he improves their win rate by 1.2% to 49.1%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Gragas and Kayn that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means you must be careful when enlisting Kayn allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Gragas and Kayn together, you may not be giving your team very much AP. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kayn ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to synergize with Kayn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Gragas and Kayn synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kayn than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Gragas players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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