Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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 here emphasize some important Kindred versus Gragas counter stats that can help us understand the differences between this pair of champs. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Gragas..
Kindred usually has a similar longest killing spree as their foe does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Gragas. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kindred usually fairs equally well when taking on Gragas, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes an ok counter for Gragas.
While Kindred does have a higher win rate than Gragas, when facing one another, Kindred also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Kindred into Gragas.
Furthermore, Kindred has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Gragas matchups, Kindred is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kindred is a decent counter for Gragas. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Gragas.
To truly master Kindred in order to counter Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred typically gets less CS compared to Gragas. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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 require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Gragas build consist of Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Terminus. When Kindred bought at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Gragas than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing against Gragas with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Gragas as Kindred, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kindred vs Gragas fights, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.1% winrate overall.
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