Gragas Top build & stats
- Win rate
- 53.7%
- Pick rate
- 2.3%
- Ban rate
- 0.4%
Recommended build
Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.17
Start with
Build in this order
Boots
Runes
Resolve +
Sorcery 
Every 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health.
Demolish
Second Wind
Overgrowth
Manaflow Band
Scorch
Summoner spells
60.4%
53 games
Max order
Q
W
E
66.7%
12 games
Each line is the variant with the best win rate among those played enough times, not simply the most popular one. Win rates are smoothed so a lucky three-game build can't top the list. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.
Tips for Gragas
Generated from this patch's numbers
- Gragas wins 53.7% of games as Top on patch 16.17 (404 games).
- Most common core: Lich Bane → Hextech Rocketbelt → Imperial Mandate — 75% win rate over 8 games.
- Take Stormraider's Surge as keystone: picked in 74% of games with a 55% win rate.
- Best matchup: Jax (80% over 15 games). Hardest: K'Sante (22% over 9 games) — consider a ban or a different pick when you see it.
Items
Core build in purchase order (from match timelines)
Core build
Starting items
Boots
Legendary items by win rate
| Item | Win rate | Pick |
|---|---|---|
| 69.0% | 7% (29) | |
| 66.7% | 7% (27) | |
| 64.9% | 18% (74) | |
| 57.4% | 47% (188) | |
| 54.5% | 14% (55) | |
| 54.2% | 15% (59) | |
| 52.0% | 43% (175) | |
| 50.0% | 2% (10) | |
| 49.4% | 22% (87) | |
| 48.7% | 10% (39) | |
| 46.2% | 3% (13) | |
| 41.9% | 11% (43) |
Runes
Most played full pages and keystone win rates
Sorcery +
Inspiration 
Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.
Manaflow Band
Transcendence
Scorch
Biscuit Delivery
Cosmic Insight
Sorcery +
Inspiration 
Resolve +
Sorcery
Keystones
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Stormraider's Surge
Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.
54.9%74% pick
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Arcane Comet
Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location.
50.0%13% pick
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Grasp of the Undying
Every 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health.
47.2%9% pick
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Electrocute
Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage.
50.0%3% pick
Summoner spells
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Flash + Teleport
52.3%85% pick
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Flash + Ignite
60.4%13% pick
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Exhaust + Flash
75.0%1% pick
Abilities & skill order
Which ability to max first, from match timelines
Q
E
W
44.8%87 games
Q
W
E
66.7%12 games
Most common first three levels: Q → E → W (57%), E → W → Q (47%), E → Q → W (33%).
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PHappy HourGragas periodically heals upon using a skill.
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QBarrel Roll
Gragas rolls his cask to a location, which can be activated to explode or will explode on its own after 4 seconds. The potency of the explosion increases over time. Enemies struck by the blast have their Move Speed slowe...
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WDrunken Rage
Gragas samples his latest brew for 1 second. After finishing, he becomes boisterous and belligerent, dealing magic damage to all nearby enemies on his next basic attack and reducing damage received.
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EBody Slam
Gragas charges to a location and collides with the first enemy unit he comes across, dealing damage to all nearby enemy units and stunning them.
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RExplosive CaskGragas hurls his cask to a location, dealing damage and knocking back enemies caught in the blast radius.