Gragas with Poppy
How to Synergize Gragas and Poppy
based on 755 Gragas with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Gragas Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Poppy helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Poppy, he sees a noticable increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Poppy helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Poppy on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Poppy does a poor job of covering Gragas in teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Poppy
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no top synergy for Gragas that will always be his top ally. However, Poppy is a very typical companion for Gragas. By locking into the same team as Gragas, she improves their win rate by 0.4% to 48.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Gragas and Poppy that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Gragas. That means you need to be careful when arranging Poppy teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Gragas players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Gragas and Poppy together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Gragas Poppy Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas to work well with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Gragas and Poppy synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Poppy than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 48.3% helping carry Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing 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 rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Poppy with Gragas are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.