Gragas with Illaoi
How to Synergize Gragas and Illaoi
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Gragas Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Gragas Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Illaoi helps Gragas perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Illaoi, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Illaoi does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Illaoi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Illaoi.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Illaoi on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Illaoi
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Illaoi is a relatively poor teammate for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, she lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 45.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Gragas and Illaoi that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Illaoi has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be careful when enlisting Illaoi allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Gragas and Illaoi together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to pair well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Gragas and Illaoi synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Illaoi than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 45.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Illaoi with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.8% win rate overall.
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