Kalista with Gragas
How to Synergize Kalista and Gragas
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Kalista Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Gragas Counter Build
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Core Kalista Items
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Gragas
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Advice to Understand How Gragas Will Play
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.
Kalista Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gragas helps Kalista perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Gragas, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Gragas helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gragas.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Gragas on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Gragas does a decent job of covering Kalista in teamfights.
Synergies between Kalista and Gragas
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no perfect synergy for Kalista that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Gragas is a below average ally for Kalista. By playing on the same team as Kalista, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 45.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Kalista and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players don't need to be cautious when lining up Gragas comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Kalista players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Kalista and Gragas together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much utility. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gragas ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kalista in order to synergize with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Kalista and Gragas synergy build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista included at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 45.5% helping carry Gragas with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kalista and Gragas pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Gragas with Kalista are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.