Gragas with Taric
How to Synergize Gragas and Taric
based on 602 Gragas with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Taric Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Taric
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Gragas Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Taric helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Taric, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Taric supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Taric 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 synergisticly with Taric.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Taric on the same side, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Taric does a decent job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Taric
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Taric?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Taric is a top-tier companion for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he improves their win rate by 4.6% to 52.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very real bond between Gragas and Taric that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Taric teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Taric together, you may not be granting your side enough sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Taric ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to synergize with Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Gragas and Taric synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Taric than with most other common builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 52.5% helping carry Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Gragas players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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