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Gragas Build 26.22

Gragas is built around one great cask, and everything sets it up. Explosive Cask can knock a diving assassin off your carry, flip an enemy into your team, or blow an engage apart, and it is why he shows up in so many roles. His Body Slam stun and Barrel Roll slow lock people in place first. Middle of the pack at 49.6% and sliding this patch, he flexes as a fighter or a playmaker depending on the game.

#75 of 135 top this patch · 2.9k games

Win rate49.6%−0.4Games2.9kPick rate2.3%Ban rate0.5%Last 8 patches−1.4 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 89%AD 8%True 2%DifficultyiModerateRewards fundamentals

The 10-second answer standard · 49.6% WR

Spells

Flash + Teleport Start

Ionian Boots of Lucidity SkillsQ›E›W Runes

Shards

ClassicModernARAM Counter

173 champions

AatroxTopB50.5%AhriMidA51.1%AkaliMidB49.4%AkshanMidC48.9%AlistarSupportS52.5%AmbessaTopC47.8%AmumuJungleB49.8%AniviaMidB50.3%AnnieMidA51.4%ApheliosAD CarryB49.4%AsheAD CarryC49.0%Aurelion SolMidA51.7%AuroraMidA51.8%AzirMidC48.0%BardSupportC48.9%Bel'VethJungleS53.0%BlitzcrankSupportS52.5%BrandSupportC48.9%BraumSupportB50.8%BriarJungleB49.9%CaitlynAD CarryC47.8%CamilleTopA51.3%CassiopeiaMidB49.4%Cho'GathJungleA51.8%CorkiAD CarryB50.8%DariusTopB50.4%DianaJungleB49.5%Dr. MundoTopA50.9%DravenAD CarryA51.1%EkkoMidA51.9%EliseJungleB50.6%EvelynnJungleA51.2%EzrealAD CarryD46.5%FiddlesticksJungleB50.6%FioraTopA51.5%FizzMidB50.1%GalioMidB49.6%GangplankTopA52.3%GarenTopA51.0%GnarTopC48.7%GragasTopB49.6%GravesJungleB49.6%GwenTopB50.1%HecarimJungleB50.4%HeimerdingerTopB50.5%HweiMidS52.8%IllaoiTopB49.9%IreliaTopB50.1%IvernJungleB50.9%JannaSupportB50.6%Jarvan IVJungleC49.3%JaxTopB50.3%JayceTopC48.0%JhinAD CarryB50.4%JinxAD CarryA51.4%K'SanteTopD47.7%Kai'SaAD CarryB49.5%KalistaAD CarryB50.0%KarmaSupportC48.0%KarthusJungleB49.7%KassadinMidA51.1%KatarinaMidS52.6%KayleTopA51.4%KaynJungleB50.3%KennenTopA51.9%Kha'ZixJungleB49.3%KindredJungleA51.6%KledTopB50.5%Kog'MawAD CarryA52.1%LeBlancMidA51.8%Lee SinJungleC48.6%LeonaSupportA51.6%LilliaJungleA51.8%LissandraMidB50.3%LockeMidB49.5%LucianAD CarryB49.5%LuluSupportB49.9%LuxSupportC49.2%MalphiteTopA50.9%MalzaharMidB50.4%MaokaiSupportA52.4%Master YiJungleB50.1%MelMidC47.9%MilioSupportB50.0%Miss FortuneAD CarryB50.3%MordekaiserTopA51.1%MorganaSupportA51.3%NaafiriJungleA50.9%NamiSupportB49.9%NasusTopB49.8%NautilusSupportB49.8%NeekoSupportC48.4%NidaleeJungleA51.9%NilahAD CarryS53.7%NocturneJungleC49.1%Nunu & WillumpJungleA51.5%OlafTopB49.5%OriannaMidD46.4%OrnnTopA51.4%PantheonTopB50.4%PoppySupportS52.5%PykeSupportB50.3%QiyanaJungleD47.2%QuinnTopC47.9%RakanSupportS52.6%RammusJungleS53.2%Rek'SaiJungleA51.6%RellSupportS52.5%Renata GlascSupportB50.8%RenektonTopB49.3%RengarJungleC48.7%RivenTopB50.4%RumbleTopD47.8%RyzeMidD47.2%SamiraAD CarryC49.3%SejuaniJungleA51.3%SennaSupportA51.0%SeraphineSupportB49.5%SettTopA51.3%ShacoJungleA51.0%ShenTopS52.9%ShyvanaJungleA51.6%SingedTopA51.2%SionTopA51.3%SivirAD CarryB50.5%SkarnerJungleB51.0%SmolderAD CarryA51.0%SonaSupportA51.3%SorakaSupportB50.7%SwainSupportA51.2%SylasMidC48.5%SyndraMidB50.1%Tahm KenchSupportC49.3%TaliyahJungleA51.2%TalonJungleA50.8%TaricSupportB51.0%TeemoTopB50.7%ThreshSupportB50.6%TristanaAD CarryB50.4%TrundleTopC48.4%TryndamereTopB50.0%Twisted FateMidB50.5%TwitchAD CarryB50.3%UdyrJungleC49.2%UrgotTopA51.2%VarusAD CarryC48.4%VayneAD CarryA51.4%VeigarMidC49.0%Vel'KozSupportA51.5%VexMidS53.4%ViJungleB49.8%ViegoJungleB49.5%ViktorMidB49.7%VladimirMidB50.8%VolibearTopB49.9%WarwickJungleA52.0%WukongJungleA51.0%XayahAD CarryS53.2%XerathMidA51.6%Xin ZhaoJungleA51.7%YasuoMidC48.5%YoneMidC49.2%YorickTopD47.8%YunaraAD CarryB49.4%YuumiSupportD47.6%ZaahenTopB50.4%ZacJungleB50.5%ZedMidB49.2%ZeriAD CarryA52.0%ZiggsAD CarryA51.6%ZileanSupportA50.9%ZoeMidA51.3%ZyraSupportA51.3%

LoL ClassicSee how Gragas was built in the classic eraGragas Classic Build

When Is Gragas Strongest?

The strong window is the later mid-game, once the build is mostly online, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Gragas' win condition is the pick and disengage, so use the power window to catch a target with his charge, scatter grouped enemies with his cask, and control where every fight actually happens.

Game timeline · Gragas drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end27:53

Ambush zone8:00–9:30 Power spike 23:18

12:07

16:44

15:24

23:18

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 51/100 · Even

Core 0/3 items

Gold ~4.7k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Ionian Boots of Lucidity · 12:07

Gragas Item Build

Gragas is a tanky ability power bruiser who heals a little each time he casts, so the build blends ability power with health and resistances so his burst threatens squishies while he lives through the dive. The items are built around one big engage where his cask displacement scatters a team and sets up a kill.

Standard loadout · Gragas The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Ring×1

Health Potion×2

Stealth Ward×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity59% · 52.1%

Sorcerer's Shoes41% · 48.8%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.Z

Zhonya's Hourglass40450.5%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.S

Stormsurge22154.3%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration51553.4%S

Stealth Ward1.5k48.9%O

Oracle Lens82348.7%

Best Gragas Runes

Body Slam into a detonated barrel front-loads a burst of damage in one window, so Stormraider's Surge is the natural keystone. That quick chunk is exactly what the rune wants, and the rest of the page keeps him tanky enough to dive in and get back out on his healing passive.

The pre-game page Stormraider's Surge · Sorcery + Inspiration · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Sorcery Primary

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

Manaflow Band97% · 49.6%

Transcendence89% · 49.7%

Scorch78% · 49.7%

Keystone plus three minors from Sorcery, two from Inspiration, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Inspiration Secondary

Biscuit Delivery47% · 48.7%

Cosmic Insight60% · 49.7%

Stat shards Offense

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +18Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)

Stack Lich Bane into Shadowflame, since his cask and body slam hit far harder with AP behind them. There is no single power window, so play the matchup in front of you. When Shadowflame lands around 23 minutes, his slam-into-barrel burst starts genuinely threatening kills, not just displacement, so aim for that timing and use his sustain to bully shorter trades in the meantime.

Gragas Skill Order

Barrel Roll at one, Body Slam at two, Drunken Rage at three; a slow, a charging stun, and a damage reduction buff all before level four, with Happy Hour healing him off those casts to keep the lane sustainable.

Skill order · Gragas R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›E

E›W

WMax Q first; E at level 2.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q14579max 9

W314151718max 18

E28101213max 13

R61116max 16

Gragas Abilities

Drunken Rage is the button that keeps him standing, a quick swig that layers magic damage onto his next attack and cuts the damage he takes. Even Barrel Roll hides a wrinkle, since it keeps gaining potency the longer it sits before he pops it or it bursts on its own.

Abilities · Gragaspatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Happy HourPassiveP

Barrel RollMax 1stQ

Drunken RageMax lastW

Body SlamMax 2ndE

Explosive CaskUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

Barrel RollMagic damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+40 per rank+80% APlv 180lv 4120lv 5160lv 7200lv 9240Cooldown-1 per ranklv 110slv 49slv 58slv 77slv 96sConstant at every rankCost80same at all ranks

Gragas Base Stats

Base stats · GragasPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD64+3.5AS0.675+2.05%MS330Range125HP640+115HP55.5+0.5Armor38+5MR32+2.05MP400+47MP56+0.8

Gragas Matchups

Gragas relies on landing his charge stun and his poke, so slippery targets that dodge his body slam and sustained-damage lanes that ignore his self-heal give him a rough time. Clumped teams he can knock apart with his cask and immobile casters he can burst from range are what his kit swings fights against.

Lane matchups · Gragas click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs AP mages 01Short trade using W empowered auto and passive, then disengage before combos02Rush magic resist so their burst combo cannot delete your health bar03In fights flash ultimate to displace their backline mage into you Win rate by game lengthGragas overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min47.7%20–28 min50.4%28–35 min51.0%Over 35 min45.8%

He can get poked out by Vladimir, Ornn, and Kennen before his engage matters, so respect their range and lean on his sustain to stay even. Against Yorick, K'Sante, and Yasuo he gets to dictate, so look for the E-Flash engage or the cask flip on their carry the moment your team is ready to follow up.

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