Gragas with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Gragas and Rek'Sai
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Gragas Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Gragas Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rek'Sai helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Rek'Sai, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Rek'Sai supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rek'Sai. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Rek'Sai.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he typically takes less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Rek'Sai does a decent job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Rek'Sai
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Gragas that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Rek'Sai is a pretty good companion for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 49.8%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Gragas and Rek'Sai that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rek'Sai teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Gragas and Rek'Sai together, you will not be providing your side much magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Rek'Sai ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to pair well with Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Gragas and Rek'Sai synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Rek'Sai than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 49.8% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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