Gragas vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Gragas
based on 498 Gragas vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Gragas vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Gragas versus Elise matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Elise..
Gragas often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Elise
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Who is Better, Gragas or Elise?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when taking on Elise, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes an ok counter for Elise.
While Gragas does have a higher winrate than Elise, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Elise.
Additionally, Gragas also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Elise matchups, Gragas is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a decent counter for Elise. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Elise.
Other Champion Matchups Against Gragas
Additional Information for Gragas Players
How We Calculated Our Gragas vs Elise Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas typically gets much more CS relative to Elise. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Gragas versus Elise build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Elise than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Elise with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Elise as Gragas, Gragas players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Gragas vs Elise face-offs, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
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