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.
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
The Gragas Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vi helps Gragas perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is an ally to Vi, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Vi helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Vi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vi.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Vi on the same side, he typically receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Vi does a decent job of protecting Gragas during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gragas that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Vi is a top-tier companion for Gragas. By locking into the same team as Gragas, she improves their win rate by 3.9% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Gragas and Vi that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vi has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means Gragas players don't need to be cautious when lining up Vi teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Gragas players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Gragas and Vi together, you may not be granting your other allies very much AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Vi ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Gragas to work well with Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gragas and Vi synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Vi than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when playing alongside Vi with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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