Gragas vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as Gragas
based on 4,386 Gragas vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yasuo as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Yasuo
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 Yasuo
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
Gragas vs Yasuo Counter Stats
How to Counter Yasuo with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Gragas against Yasuo matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yasuo..
Gragas often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Yasuo. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Yasuo
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Who is Better, Gragas or Yasuo?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gragas usually loses when taking on Yasuo, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes a poor counter for Yasuo.
While Gragas does have a lower winrate than Yasuo, when facing one another, Gragas also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gragas into Yasuo.
Moreover, Gragas has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yasuo. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gragas is a terribly counter for Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gragas against Yasuo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gragas in order to counter Yasuo during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas usually gets less CS relative to Yasuo. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gragas versus Yasuo build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Yasuo than with most other common builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 46.9% when countering Yasuo with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Yasuo as Gragas, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Gragas vs Yasuo battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Yasuo as Gragas are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.