Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Kai'Sa vs. Gragas matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gragas..
Kai'Sa usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Gragas. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Gragas, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Gragas.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate than Gragas, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Kai'Sa into Gragas.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Gragas matchups, Gragas is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter to Gragas. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Gragas.
To truly master Kai'Sa to counter Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often gets more CS compared to Gragas. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Gragas build include Nashor's Tooth, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Gragas with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Gragas as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kai'Sa vs Gragas counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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