Gragas vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Gragas
based on 1,904 Gragas vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Gragas vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Gragas in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Gragas against Vi counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Vi..
Gragas normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Vi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Vi
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Who is Better, Gragas or Vi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when facing off against Vi, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes a bad counter for Vi.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate compared to Vi, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Gragas into Vi.
Additionally, Gragas also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a bad counter to Vi. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gragas to counter Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas often accumulates much more CS as Vi. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Gragas versus Vi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Vi than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 46.7% when countering Vi with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Vi as Gragas, Gragas players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Gragas vs Vi matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Vi as Gragas are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.