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.
Try to stay away from walls. Ornn is much less strong if he cannot stun you.
Attack Ornn to keep him from creating items in lane.
The stats shown here clarify some significant Gragas against Ornn counter statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ornn’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Ornn..
Gragas typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Ornn. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when trying to fight Ornn, with a 44.7% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a bad counter for Ornn.
While Gragas does have a much lower win rate than Ornn, when on opposite teams, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gragas into Ornn.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ornn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Ornn matchups, Ornn is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Gragas is a bad counter for Ornn. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Ornn.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to counter Ornn 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 tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas on average racks up less CS compared to Ornn. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gragas versus Ornn build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Ornn than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 44.7% when playing against Ornn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Ornn as Gragas, Gragas players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Gragas vs Ornn matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ornn as Gragas are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.