Gragas with Vex
How to Synergize Gragas and Vex
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Gragas Vex Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Vex
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Vex
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 Vex Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vex as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Vex synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vex, 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 Vex. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vex helps Gragas perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is paired with Vex, he gets a noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Vex does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Vex on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vex.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Vex on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vex does a poor job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Vex?
There is no ideal companion for Gragas that will always be his ideal synergy. However, Vex is a terrible teammate for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, they decreases their win rate by -6.7% to 41.2%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Gragas and Vex that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Vex has a much lower diffuclty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when lining up Vex teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Gragas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Gragas and Vex together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Vex ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 synergize with Vex during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Gragas and Vex synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Vex than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 41.2% helping carry Vex with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against 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. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 41.2% winrate overall.
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