Gragas vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Gragas
based on 2,296 Gragas vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Gragas vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Gragas against Leona counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Gragas usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Leona
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Who is Better, Gragas or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 43.5% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes a bad counter for Leona.
While Gragas does have a much lower winrate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Gragas also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Gragas into Leona.
Moreover, Gragas also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Gragas is a garbage counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to counter Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas typically gets much more CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gragas versus Leona build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Leona than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 43.5% battling Leona with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Leona as Gragas, Gragas players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Gragas vs Leona counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Leona as Gragas are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.