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.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Gragas Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rumble helps Gragas perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas plays on the same team as Rumble, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Rumble does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside Rumble on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rumble.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Rumble on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Rumble does a poor job of protecting Gragas during team fights.
There is no top companion for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Rumble is a relatively poor teammate for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 45.5%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Gragas and Rumble that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Rumble has a much greater difficulty compared to Gragas. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Rumble allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Gragas players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Gragas and Rumble together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Rumble ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Gragas to synergize with Rumble during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Gragas and Rumble synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Rumble than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 45.5% when playing alongside Rumble with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.5% win rate overall.
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