Brand with Gragas
How to Synergize Brand and Gragas
based on 2,584 Brand with Gragas pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Brand vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Brand with Gragas
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gragas helps Brand perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Brand is paired with Gragas, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Gragas does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Gragas on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Brand in teamfights.
Synergies between Brand and Gragas
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Is Brand better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no one best ally for Brand that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Gragas is a terrible teammate for Brand. By locking into the same team as Brand, he decreases their win rate by -3.3% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible bond between Brand and Gragas that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Brand. That means you need to be cautious when finding Gragas comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Brand and Gragas together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's 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 do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to work well with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Brand and Gragas synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Gragas than with most other common item sets. In fact, Brand had an average win rate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Brand players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Brand and Gragas pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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