Gragas with Varus
How to Synergize Gragas and Varus
based on 2,552 Gragas with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Varus Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Varus
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Gragas Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Varus helps Gragas perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Varus, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Varus does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Varus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Varus.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Varus on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Varus does a decent job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Varus
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Varus?
There is no top ally for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Varus is a not very good ally for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -2.2% to 45.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Gragas and Varus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when arranging Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Gragas players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gragas and Varus together, you may not be providing your team very much support. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Varus teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to work well with Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Gragas and Varus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Varus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 45.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Varus with this build.
To have the best chance of beating 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Gragas and Varus pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Varus with Gragas are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.