Delaying the activation of Undying Rage is a very effective way to make an enemy champion over-commit to trying to kill you.
If the enemy is stacking Armor, try building items like Last Whisper or Youmuu's Ghostblade.
Bloodlust is an excellent way to heal Tryndamere. Try not to let it fade off before you activate it.
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 highlight several influential Tryndamere vs. Gragas counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Tryndamere’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tryndamere may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gragas..
Tryndamere normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Gragas. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tryndamere usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gragas, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Tryndamere makes an ok counter to Gragas.
While Tryndamere does have a higher winrate than Gragas, when they face off with one another, Tryndamere also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Tryndamere into Gragas.
Additionally, Tryndamere has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tryndamere vs Gragas matchups, Tryndamere is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tryndamere is a decent counter to Gragas. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tryndamere against Gragas.
To truly master Tryndamere to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tryndamere usually gets more CS relative 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 supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Tryndamere versus Gragas build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Tryndamere combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Gragas than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Tryndamere boasted an average winrate of 50.8% battling Gragas with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Gragas as Tryndamere, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Tryndamere vs Gragas counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
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