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.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
The Gragas Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ahri helps Gragas perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Ahri, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Ahri doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Ahri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ahri.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Ahri on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Ahri does a poor job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Gragas that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Ahri is a very bad teammate for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, she lowers their win rate by -4.8% to 43.1%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Gragas and Ahri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Ahri has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when finding Ahri comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Gragas and Ahri together, you will not be granting your team very much AD. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Ahri teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to pair well with Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Gragas and Ahri synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Ahri than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 43.1% when playing alongside Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Gragas and Ahri pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Ahri with Gragas are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.