Gragas with Olaf
How to Synergize Gragas and Olaf
based on 416 Gragas with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Gragas Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Olaf helps Gragas perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is paired with Olaf, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Olaf helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Olaf 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 Olaf.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Olaf on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Olaf does a poor job of covering Gragas during team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gragas that will always be his top ally. Yet, overall, Olaf is a relatively poor teammate for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 46.6%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Gragas and Olaf that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Olaf allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Gragas and Olaf together, you probably will not be giving your other allies enough AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gragas to synergize with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Gragas and Olaf synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Olaf than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 46.6% when playing alongside Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing 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 combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Olaf with Gragas are presented for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.