Gragas with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Gragas and Blitzcrank
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Gragas Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
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.
Gragas Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Blitzcrank helps Gragas perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Blitzcrank, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Blitzcrank supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Blitzcrank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Blitzcrank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Blitzcrank.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Blitzcrank on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Blitzcrank does a decent job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no ideal companion for Gragas that will always be his best synergy. However, Blitzcrank is a top-tier companion for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he raises their win rate by 4.1% to 52.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real bond between Gragas and Blitzcrank that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Blitzcrank teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Gragas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Gragas and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be giving your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Blitzcrank ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas in order to work well with Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Gragas and Blitzcrank synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Blitzcrank than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 52.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
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