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Gragas with Nilah

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How to Synergize Gragas and Nilah

based on 1,006 Gragas with Nilah pairs
Win Rate
51 %
K/D/A
2.37
Pick Rate
1.5 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we download the results of from millions of League of Legends games straight from Riot Games each week. Gragas has fought alongside Nilah in 1006 recently played, ranked games. By pooling so much great data from the creators of League, we are totally sure that we can provide you with high-quality, insightful builds to help Gragas synergize with Nilah. It is relatively rare for Gragas to play with Nilah on the same side. This pairing has only occurred in approximately 1.5% of games with Gragas.

Gragas Nilah Synergy Summary

Gragas has done a decent job of fighting on the same side as Nilah. Normally, he wins an acceptable 51.0% of the time the champs play on the same team. If you want to maximize your potential as Gragas when fighting on the same team as Nilah by learning how to better synergize your strategy with them, then dig into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Gragas vs Nilah Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Scorchclaw PupHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeLost Chapter

Core Gragas Items

~22 Mins
Lich BaneShadowflameStormsurge

Optional Items

Rabadon's DeathcapZhonya's HourglassLuden's CompanionHextech Rocketbelt

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Gragas to level upq
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Second ability for Gragas to level upe
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Last skill for Gragas to max outw

Runes

DominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactEyeball CollectionTreasure Hunter
SorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Gragas's passive ability p
Gragas's q ability q
Gragas's w ability w
Gragas's e ability e
Gragas's ultimate ability r
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E
2
W
3
Q
4
Q
5
Q
6
R
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Nilah

Tips for Playing as Gragas with Nilah

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.

Gragas Nilah Synergy Stats

Gragas Image
Win Rate
51 %
VS
Win Rate
49 %
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5.6
< Kills >
5.9
5.4
< Deaths >
5.8
7.2
< Assists >
7.2
1.29
< Killing Sprees >
1.36
102
< Minions Killed >
109
0.58
< Dragons Killed >
0.59
0.34
< Inhibitors >
0.38
1,458
< Physical Damage >
1,474
17,942
< Magic Damage >
18,364
606
< True Damage >
641
20,007
< Damage Dealt >
20,480
28,513
< Damage Taken >
29,773
10,908
< Gold Earned >
11,274
1.38
< Towers >
1.47
0.13
< Baron Takedowns >
0.14
11,976
< Total Healing >
12,331
13,724
< Experience >
14,035
20
< Vision Score >
21
8
< Wards Placed >
8
404
< Time Dealing CC >
414

How to Play with Nilah as Gragas in LoL

The Gragas Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nilah helps Gragas perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.

When Gragas is paired with Nilah, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Nilah does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nilah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nilah.

Additionally, when Gragas plays with Nilah on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nilah does a decent job of covering Gragas during team fights.

Synergies between Gragas and Nilah

Damage Types Compared

Gragas
Nilah
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Gragas
Nilah

Is Gragas better when played alongside Nilah?

There is no perfect synergy for Gragas that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Nilah is a superb companion for Gragas. By locking into the same team as Gragas, they increases their win rate by 3.1% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Gragas and Nilah that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.

Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Gragas. That means Gragas players need to be very careful when enlisting Nilah allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to work well with you.

Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.

In contrast, by aligning Gragas and Nilah together, you will not be granting your side a lot of AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.

Regardless of your Nilah ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Gragas Players

How We Calculated Our Gragas Nilah Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Gragas and Nilah, we analyzed 1,006 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Gragas with Nilah comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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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 work well with Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.

The best items to have in your Gragas and Nilah synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Nilah than with most other common builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 51.0% helping carry Nilah with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Gragas and Nilah pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.

By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nilah with Gragas are shown for every ranked division. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.