Gragas vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Gragas
based on 2,638 Gragas vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Gragas vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several important Gragas against Varus counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Varus..
Gragas normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Varus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gragas and Varus
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Who is Better, Gragas or Varus?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually fairs equally well when taking on Varus, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Gragas makes an ok counter for Varus.
While Gragas does have a higher win rate compared to Varus, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Varus.
Furthermore, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Varus. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gragas is a decent counter to Varus. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas in order to counter Varus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually accumulates less CS relative to Varus. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Gragas versus Varus build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Varus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 50.0% battling Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Varus as Gragas, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Gragas vs Varus counters, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
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