Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
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 provided here underscore some critical Sivir against Gragas matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. Sivir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sivir may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gragas..
Sivir normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gragas. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sivir usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Sivir makes a good counter to Gragas.
While Sivir does have a higher win rate than Gragas, when they face off with one another, Sivir also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Sivir into Gragas.
Moreover, Sivir also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sivir vs Gragas matchups, Sivir is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sivir is a decent counter to Gragas. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sivir against Gragas.
To truly master Sivir in order to counter Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sivir most often accumulates more CS compared to Gragas. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Sivir versus Gragas build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Gragas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sivir boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Gragas as Sivir, Sivir players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sivir vs Gragas fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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