Gragas vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Gragas
based on 2,666 Gragas vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Gragas vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Gragas in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Gragas vs. Thresh counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Thresh. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Gragas normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Thresh. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Thresh
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Who is Better, Gragas or Thresh?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Thresh, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Gragas makes a poor counter for Thresh.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate than Thresh, when facing one another, Gragas also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gragas into Thresh.
Moreover, Gragas also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter for Thresh. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas to counter Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually racks up much more CS as Thresh. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Gragas versus Thresh build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Thresh than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing against Thresh with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Thresh as Gragas, Gragas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Gragas vs Thresh LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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