Gragas with Ziggs
How to Synergize Gragas and Ziggs
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Gragas Ziggs Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Ziggs Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Ziggs
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 Ziggs Will Play
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
Gragas Ziggs Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ziggs as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ziggs helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Ziggs, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Ziggs doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Ziggs on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ziggs.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Ziggs on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Ziggs
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Ziggs?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Ziggs is a relatively poor companion for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 46.8%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Gragas and Ziggs that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Ziggs has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Ziggs comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Gragas players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Ziggs together, you will not be providing your team much attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Ziggs ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Gragas and Ziggs synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Gragas players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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