Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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 stats provided here feature several important Mordekaiser vs. Gragas matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. As an example, Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gragas..
Mordekaiser often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Gragas. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Mordekaiser usually wins when facing off against Gragas, with a 55.4% win rate. As a result, Mordekaiser makes a fantastic counter to Gragas.
While Mordekaiser does have a much higher winrate compared to Gragas, when on opposite teams, Mordekaiser also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Mordekaiser into Gragas.
Additionally, Mordekaiser has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Gragas matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Mordekaiser is a great counter to Gragas. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Mordekaiser against Gragas.
If you would like to truly master Mordekaiser to counter Gragas 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser often racks up more CS as Gragas. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Mordekaiser versus Gragas build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Riftmaker. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Gragas than with many other common builds. In fact, Mordekaiser had an average win rate of 55.4% when countering Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Gragas as Mordekaiser, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Mordekaiser vs Gragas counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.4% winrate overall.
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