Gragas vs Annie
How to Beat Annie as Gragas
based on 1,042 Gragas vs Annie matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Annie Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Annie as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Annie
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 Win Against Annie
Annie's summoned bear, Tibbers, burns opposing units around himself. Try to keep your distance from him after he's been summoned.
Keep an eye out for a white, swirling power around Annie. It means she's ready to unleash her stun.
Summoner Smite can be used to help take down Tibbers.
Gragas vs Annie Counter Stats
How to Counter Annie with Gragas in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Gragas versus Annie matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Annie’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Annie..
Gragas typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Annie. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Annie
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Who is Better, Gragas or Annie?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Annie, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes an ok counter for Annie.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Annie, when on opposite teams, Gragas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Annie.
Moreover, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Annie. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Annie matchups, Annie is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter for Annie. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Annie.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas to counter Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Annie. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Gragas versus Annie build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Annie than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Annie with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Annie as Gragas, Gragas players should take 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 that we analyzed for Gragas vs Annie clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% win rate overall.
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