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.
Purchasing Vision Wards can help you detect Evelynn's location in order to prepare for her ambushes.
A large share of Evelynn's threat is in her charm, 'Allure.' Protect allies marked with 'Allure' or, if you are marked, make sure allies are between you and where Evelynn may attack from.
If you suspect Evelynn is about to ambush one of your teammates, let them know by pinging the minimap and typing in chat.
The stats shown on this page highlight some significant Gragas against Evelynn counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Evelynn’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Evelynn..
Gragas typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Evelynn. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Evelynn, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes an ok counter to Evelynn.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Evelynn, when facing one another, Gragas also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Evelynn.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Evelynn. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Evelynn matchups, Evelynn is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter to Evelynn. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Evelynn.
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to counter Evelynn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually racks up much more CS as Evelynn. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Gragas versus Evelynn build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Evelynn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Evelynn with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Evelynn as Gragas, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Gragas vs Evelynn counters, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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