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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Gragas Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Orianna helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Orianna, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Orianna does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Orianna 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 Orianna.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Orianna on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Orianna does a poor job of covering Gragas during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Gragas that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Orianna is a very bad companion for Gragas. By being on the same side as Gragas, she decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 44.3%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Gragas and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players should be cautious when lining up Orianna teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gragas and Orianna together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Orianna teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Gragas to work well with Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Gragas and Orianna synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Orianna than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 44.3% when playing alongside Orianna with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Orianna with Gragas are presented for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.