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.
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
The Gragas Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kai'Sa. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kai'Sa helps Gragas perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Kai'Sa, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Kai'Sa doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kai'Sa does a decent job of covering Gragas in team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Kai'Sa is a below average teammate for Gragas. By playing on the same side as Gragas, she decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 45.2%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Gragas and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means you should be careful when lining up Kai'Sa teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Gragas players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Gragas and Kai'Sa together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Kai'Sa ally, you should focus on increasing your 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 to synergize with Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Gragas and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas had an average win rate of 45.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Gragas players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.2% winrate overall.
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