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.
Keeping Renekton from being able to fight and gain Fury by continually harassing him will severely reduce the effectiveness of his abilities.
Pay close attention to Renekton's Fury gauge as that will usually signify when he is about to attack.
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Gragas versus Renekton matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Renekton’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Renekton..
Gragas usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Renekton. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Renekton, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes an ok counter for Renekton.
While Gragas does have a higher winrate than Renekton, when on opposite teams, Gragas also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Renekton.
Additionally, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Renekton. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Renekton matchups, Gragas is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Gragas is a decent counter for Renekton. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Renekton.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to counter Renekton during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas on average gets less CS relative to Renekton. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Gragas versus Renekton build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Renekton than with most other common builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 50.5% battling Renekton with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Renekton 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 runes we have analyed for Gragas vs Renekton matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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