Gragas with Annie
How to Synergize Gragas and Annie
based on 747 Gragas with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Annie
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Annie
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.
Advice to Understand How Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Gragas Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Annie helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Annie, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Annie does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Annie on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Annie. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Annie.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Annie on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Annie does a poor job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Annie
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Annie?
There is no ideal companion for Gragas that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Annie is a very bad ally for Gragas. By being on the same team as Gragas, she decreases their win rate by -3.5% to 44.4%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Gragas and Annie that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players should be cautious when lining up Annie teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Gragas players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gragas and Annie together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Annie ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas to synergize with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Gragas and Annie synergy build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Annie than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 44.4% helping carry Annie with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Gragas and Annie pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
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