Aatrox with Gragas
How to Synergize Aatrox and Gragas
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Aatrox Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Gragas
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Aatrox Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gragas helps Aatrox perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox plays on the same team as Gragas, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Gragas provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played alongside Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Gragas on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Aatrox during teamfights.
Synergies between Aatrox and Gragas
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no perfect companion for Aatrox that will always be his best ally. Yet, Gragas is a below average companion for Aatrox. By being on the same side as Aatrox, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 48.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Aatrox and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means you must be cautious when lining up Gragas comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Aatrox players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Aatrox and Gragas together, you may not be providing your team very much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gragas ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to pair well with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Aatrox and Gragas synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when playing alongside Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Gragas with Aatrox are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.