Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
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.
The Mordekaiser Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Mordekaiser sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gragas helps Mordekaiser perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Mordekaiser is paired with Gragas, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Gragas provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Mordekaiser is played together with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gragas.
Moreover, when Mordekaiser plays with Gragas on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Mordekaiser during teamfights.
There is no top ally for Mordekaiser that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Gragas is a terrible ally for Mordekaiser. By being on the same side as Mordekaiser, he drops their win rate by -3.4% to 49.1%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Mordekaiser and Gragas that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Mordekaiser. That means you must be cautious when lining up Gragas comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Mordekaiser and Gragas together, you will not be giving your other teammates much sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Mordekaiser to work well with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Mordekaiser and Gragas synergy build include Thornmail, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Riftmaker. When Mordekaiser combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gragas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Mordekaiser boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Mordekaiser players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Mordekaiser and Gragas pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% winrate overall.
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