Gragas vs Volibear
How to Beat Volibear as Gragas
based on 1,303 Gragas vs Volibear matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Volibear Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Volibear as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Volibear
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.
Gragas vs Volibear Counter Stats
How to Counter Volibear with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Gragas against Volibear matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Volibear’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Volibear..
Gragas usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Volibear. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Volibear
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Who is Better, Gragas or Volibear?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Volibear, with a 48.1% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes a bad counter to Volibear.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate than Volibear, when on opposite teams, Gragas also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gragas into Volibear.
Additionally, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Volibear. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Volibear matchups, Volibear is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a somewhat poor counter to Volibear. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gragas against Volibear.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to counter Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Volibear. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Gragas versus Volibear build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Volibear than with many other common builds. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 48.1% battling Volibear with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Volibear as Gragas, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Gragas vs Volibear counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% winrate overall.
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