Hecarim with Gragas
How to Synergize Hecarim and Gragas
based on 1,117 Hecarim with Gragas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Gragas
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Advice to Understand How Gragas Will Play
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.
Hecarim Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Hecarim sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Hecarim perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim is paired with Gragas, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Gragas supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Hecarim during teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Gragas
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no top champion pairing for Hecarim that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Gragas is a very typical companion for Hecarim. By being on the same side as Hecarim, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 48.1%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Hecarim and Gragas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players don't need to be careful when enlisting Gragas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Hecarim players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Hecarim and Gragas together, you probably will not be giving your side enough support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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 Hecarim in order to work well with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Hecarim and Gragas synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Hecarim included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 48.1% helping carry Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Hecarim and Gragas pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Gragas with Hecarim are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.