Alistar with Gragas
How to Synergize Alistar and Gragas
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Alistar Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Gragas
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Gragas, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Gragas doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Gragas on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Gragas does a decent job of covering Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Gragas
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no top synergy for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Gragas is a pretty good companion for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 52.1%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Alistar and Gragas that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Gragas teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by pairing Alistar and Gragas together, you probably will not be granting your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to work well with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Alistar and Gragas synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Gragas than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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