Blitzcrank with Gragas
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Gragas
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Blitzcrank Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Gragas
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank 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, Blitzcrank sees a large worsening 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 Blitzcrank perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Blitzcrank is paired with Gragas, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Gragas helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played alongside Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Blitzcrank plays with Gragas on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Blitzcrank in team fights.
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no one best champion pairing for Blitzcrank that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Gragas is a very typical companion for Blitzcrank. By being on the same team as Blitzcrank, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 52.0%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Blitzcrank and Gragas that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Blitzcrank. That means you must be careful when lining up Gragas allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Blitzcrank and Gragas together, you may not be granting your team enough attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Blitzcrank in order to synergize with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to include in your Blitzcrank and Gragas synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Blitzcrank included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Gragas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Blitzcrank players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Blitzcrank and Gragas pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Gragas with Blitzcrank are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.