Gragas with Kindred
How to Synergize Gragas and Kindred
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Gragas Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Gragas Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kindred helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Kindred, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Kindred provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kindred. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kindred.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Kindred on the same team, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kindred does a decent job of covering Gragas during team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Kindred
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no one best companion for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Kindred is a very typical teammate for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, they decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Gragas and Kindred that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kindred has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Kindred comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Gragas players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Gragas and Kindred together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 work well with Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Gragas and Kindred synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Kindred than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating 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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Kindred with Gragas are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.