Gragas with Xerath
How to Synergize Gragas and Xerath
based on 1,947 Gragas with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Gragas Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Xerath, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Xerath doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Xerath 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 with Xerath.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Xerath on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Xerath
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no top champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Xerath is a below average teammate for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 45.9%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Gragas and Xerath that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xerath has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players need to be careful when arranging Xerath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Xerath together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Xerath ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 work well with Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Gragas and Xerath synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing alongside Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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