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Gragas Build

Jungle Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 6,125 gamesUpdated

50.1%win rate0.3%pick0.5%ban

Who counters Gragas

Every Jungle matchup for Gragas, ranked →

How to build Gragas

Sorcerer's Shoes→Lich Bane→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Sorcerer's Shoes → Lich Bane → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass

49.5% win rate 16% of games 649 games
RunesDominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure HunterSorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking41% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite100%
Skills
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Barrel Roll
24578
Drunken Rage
114151718
Body Slam
39101213
Explosive Cask
61116
StartScorchclaw PupScorchclaw Pup
Full Gragas build →
50.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.4% over 15,932 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.1% over 6,125 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.8%at Emerald+
0.3%pick rate
0.5%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
54.0%under 22 min
50.6%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Gragas champion portraitJ GragasvsLee Sin champion portraitJ Lee Sin
11 / 8 / 9

Build

Scorchclaw PupSorcerer's Shoes|Lich Bane→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

WQEQQRQEQEREEWW
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Gragas champion portraitJ GragasvsNunu & Willump champion portraitJ Nunu & Willump
13 / 6 / 15

Build

Scorchclaw PupSorcerer's Shoes|Lich Bane→Hextech Rocketbelt→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWWRW
Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Gragas champion portraitJ GragasvsNocturne champion portraitJ Nocturne
9 / 8 / 8

Build

Gustwalker HatchlingSorcerer's Shoes|Lich Bane→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashSmite|

Skills

WEQQQRQEQERE

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 49.0% win rate · 41% of games · 2,179 games
DominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
SorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.4% win rate · 19% of games · 1,028 games
DominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 100% of games, 50.2% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes78%Ionian Boots of Lucidity14%Mercury's Treads3%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 50.9% win rate
Jungle pet
Gustwalker Hatchling70%
7 of 10 recent games started Gustwalker Hatchling

Gragas build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Shadowflame1st
  2. Zhonya's Hourglass2nd
  3. Lich Bane3rd
6% of games that reach a third item take this path53.5% win rate230 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Gragas →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 6,196 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
77% · 50.9% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
13% · 47.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
3% · 52.3% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 44.1% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
2% · 47.2% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
1% · 47.7% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Shadowflame›Lich Bane+Sorcerer's Shoes6% of games · 43.4% win rate · 389 games
  2. Lich Bane+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 50.0% win rate · 278 games
  3. Lich Bane›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 44.6% win rate · 195 games
  4. Shadowflame›Zhonya's Hourglass›Lich Bane+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 53.4% win rate · 131 games
  5. Stormsurge+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 35.1% win rate · 114 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Gragas against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Gragas's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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