Heimerdinger with Gragas
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Gragas
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Heimerdinger Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Gragas
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger 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, Heimerdinger 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 drop shows that Gragas helps Heimerdinger perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Gragas, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Gragas does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Gragas does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger in team fights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Gragas
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no perfect ally for Heimerdinger that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Gragas is a very bad ally for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, he lowers their win rate by -5.1% to 44.5%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Heimerdinger and Gragas that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Gragas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Heimerdinger and Gragas together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to work well with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Heimerdinger and Gragas synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gragas than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger boasted an average win rate of 44.5% when playing alongside Gragas with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.5% winrate overall.
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