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 Volibear 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, Volibear sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Volibear perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear is paired with Gragas, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Gragas provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played with Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Volibear plays with Gragas on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Volibear in team fights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Volibear that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Gragas is a not very good teammate for Volibear. By being on the same side as Volibear, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 45.3%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Volibear and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Volibear. That means you should be careful when enlisting Gragas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Volibear and Gragas together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gragas ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Volibear to synergize with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Volibear and Gragas synergy build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gragas than with many other common builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average winrate of 45.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.3% win rate overall.
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