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Gragas Top build & stats

FighterMage C 476 games · patch 16.16
Win rate
48.7%
Pick rate
2.1%
Ban rate
0.4%
Division
Master
Build, runes, spells and skill order are from Master games only.

Recommended build

Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.16

Built from single items

Start with

Doran's Ring
Doran's Ring
400 gold
Health Potion
Health Potion
50 gold
Health Potion
Health Potion
50 gold
54.3% 35 games

Best three items so far

Sunfire Aegis
Sunfire Aegis
2,800 gold
Cryptbloom
Cryptbloom
3,000 gold
Zhonya's Hourglass
Zhonya's Hourglass
3,250 gold
9,050 gold
66.7% WR each item separately

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps
1,200 gold
92.3% 13 games

Runes

Sorcery Sorcery + Inspiration Inspiration
75.0% WR
8 games · 2% pick
Arcane Comet
Arcane Comet

Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location.

Sorcery Sorcery
Summon Aery Arcane Comet Stormraider's Surge Deathfire Touch
Axiom Arcanist Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence Absolute Focus Celerity
Waterwalking Gathering Storm Scorch
Inspiration Inspiration
Magical Footwear Hextech Flashtraption Cash Back
Triple Tonic Biscuit Delivery Time Warp Tonic
Jack Of All Trades Cosmic Insight Approach Velocity
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling

Summoner spells

Flash Teleport
52.6% 194 games

Max order

Barrel Roll Q Body Slam E Drunken Rage W
45.2% 31 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. Not enough players have finished the same three items yet, so the core above is the three strongest items measured one by one. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.

Tips for Gragas

Generated from this patch's numbers

  • Gragas wins 48.7% of games as Top on patch 16.16 (476 games).
  • Most common core: Lich Bane → Hextech Rocketbelt → Shadowflame — 62% win rate over 13 games.
  • Take Stormraider's Surge as keystone: picked in 76% of games with a 52% win rate.
  • Best matchup: Olaf (89% over 9 games). Hardest: Gangplank (12% over 8 games) — consider a ban or a different pick when you see it.
  • Gragas is an early-game champion: 49% win rate in games under 25 minutes but 40% after 35. Snowball your lead into towers and objectives.

Items

Most common sets of three completed items

Core build

Lich Bane
Lich Bane
Hextech Rocketbelt
Hextech Rocketbelt
Shadowflame
Shadowflame
66.7% WR
6 games · 1% pick
Rabadon's Deathcap
Rabadon's Deathcap
Lich Bane
Lich Bane
Shadowflame
Shadowflame
60.0% WR
5 games · 1% pick
Lich Bane
Lich Bane
Hextech Rocketbelt
Hextech Rocketbelt
Zhonya's Hourglass
Zhonya's Hourglass
25.0% WR
4 games · 1% pick

Starting items

Doran's Ring
Doran's Ring
Health Potion
Health Potion
Health Potion
Health Potion
54.3% WR
35 games · 7% pick
Sapphire Crystal
Sapphire Crystal
Refillable Potion
Refillable Potion
42.9% WR
7 games · 1% pick

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
54.1% WR
109 games · 23% pick
Sorcerer's Shoes
Sorcerer's Shoes
38.8% WR
80 games · 17% pick
Mercury's Treads
Mercury's Treads
53.8% WR
13 games · 3% pick

Legendary items by win rate

ItemWin ratePick
75.0% 2% (8)
61.5% 5% (26)
60.6% 7% (33)
59.4% 7% (32)
55.1% 22% (107)
52.2% 5% (23)
48.9% 10% (47)
47.6% 18% (84)
47.0% 14% (66)
35.3% 4% (17)
33.3% 3% (12)
33.3% 1% (6)

Runes

Most played full pages and keystone win rates

Sorcery Sorcery + Inspiration Inspiration
47.9% WR
48 games · 10% pick
Stormraider's Surge
Stormraider's Surge

Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.

Sorcery Sorcery
Summon Aery Arcane Comet Stormraider's Surge Deathfire Touch
Axiom Arcanist Manaflow Band Nimbus Cloak
Transcendence Absolute Focus Celerity
Waterwalking Gathering Storm Scorch
Inspiration Inspiration
Magical Footwear Hextech Flashtraption Cash Back
Triple Tonic Biscuit Delivery Time Warp Tonic
Jack Of All Trades Cosmic Insight Approach Velocity
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling
Sorcery Sorcery + Inspiration Inspiration
75.0% WR
8 games · 2% pick
Arcane Comet Manaflow Band Transcendence Scorch Biscuit Delivery Cosmic Insight
Resolve Resolve + Sorcery Sorcery
57.1% WR
7 games · 1% pick
Grasp of the Undying Demolish Second Wind Overgrowth Manaflow Band Scorch

Keystones

  • Stormraider's Surge Stormraider's Surge Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist. 50.6%37% pick
  • Arcane Comet Arcane Comet Damaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location. 53.6%6% pick
  • Grasp of the Undying Grasp of the Undying Every 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health. 59.1%5% pick
  • Electrocute Electrocute Hitting a champion with 3 separate attacks or abilities in 3s deals bonus adaptive damage. 0.0%1% pick

Summoner spells

  • Flash Teleport Flash + Teleport 52.6%41% pick
  • Flash Ignite Flash + Ignite 33.3%8% pick
  • Flash Ghost Flash + Ghost 75.0%1% pick

Abilities & skill order

Which ability to max first, from match timelines

Barrel Roll Q Body Slam E Drunken Rage W 45.2%31 games
Barrel Roll Q Drunken Rage W Body Slam E 83.3%6 games

Most common first three levels: E → W → Q (25%), Q → E → W (58%), E → Q → W (67%).

  • PHappy Hour

    Gragas periodically heals upon using a skill.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • RExplosive Cask

    Gragas hurls his cask to a location, dealing damage and knocking back enemies caught in the blast radius.