Gragas with Kalista
How to Synergize Gragas and Kalista
based on 594 Gragas with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Kalista Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Gragas Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Gragas Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kalista helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas tries to synergize with Kalista, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This change may signal that Kalista doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Kalista on the same team, 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 Kalista.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Kalista on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kalista does a decent job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Kalista
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Gragas better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no perfect ally for Gragas that will always be his top teammate. However, Kalista is a not very good companion for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, she lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 45.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Gragas and Kalista that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Kalista has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players must be cautious when enlisting Kalista comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Gragas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Gragas and Kalista together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough utility. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Gragas
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Gragas Players
How We Calculated Our Gragas Kalista Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas in order to synergize with Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master 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 finished items to use in your Gragas and Kalista synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kalista than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 45.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Gragas and Kalista pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.5% win rate overall.
If you want to view Gragas and Kalista collaboration tips and stats for a an individual division, feel free to select one from the selection menu displayed above. By default, the statistics and tips and suggestions shown are calculated using all games with data with these champions.