Premium build for disruption and broken tempo: Gragas must be able to create a fight that feels wrong for the enemy from one single angle. The premium build pushes further the idea that he is neither a pure assassin nor a standard tank, but a champion who wins when he makes enemy positioning wrong for several seconds in a row.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
15,100 total cost
Nothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Anti-resist build for tanky enemies. Choose when multiple enemies build armor/magic resist.
14,500 total cost -600gDefensive build adding survivability. Pick this against high enemy damage or when behind.
15,000 total cost -100g
Share of the roster this champion outclasses, at each stage of the game.
50% = average for the roster at that point of the game, 90% = among the strongest. The three phases come from the site's editorial tempo grid (early/mid/late, rated across 142 champions); the level-by-level curve adds this build's computed spikes — ultimate, completed items — never by more than ±8 points.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
15,000 total costNothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Anti-resist build for tanky enemies. Choose when multiple enemies build armor/magic resist.
14,400 total cost -600gDefensive build adding survivability. Pick this against high enemy damage or when behind.
15,200 total cost +200g
Share of the roster this champion outclasses, at each stage of the game.
50% = average for the roster at that point of the game, 90% = among the strongest. The three phases come from the site's editorial tempo grid (early/mid/late, rated across 142 champions); the level-by-level curve adds this build's computed spikes — ultimate, completed items — never by more than ±8 points.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
15,100 total costNothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Anti-resist build for tanky enemies. Choose when multiple enemies build armor/magic resist.
14,500 total cost -600gDefensive build adding survivability. Pick this against high enemy damage or when behind.
15,600 total cost +500g
Share of the roster this champion outclasses, at each stage of the game.
50% = average for the roster at that point of the game, 90% = among the strongest. The three phases come from the site's editorial tempo grid (early/mid/late, rated across 142 champions); the level-by-level curve adds this build's computed spikes — ultimate, completed items — never by more than ±8 points.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Same advisor in the Draft (the MVP sheet applies it to your real draft) and in Ask Nexus, which explains the choice. On counters pages: the variant to take against each counter-pick.
Skill leveling order and rune choices explained, from our in-depth kit analysis (patch 7.0e). Ability numbers are from patch 7.3; up-to-date items are in the section above.
Gragas generates value by controlling enemy positioning and removing key targets. The build maximizes burst while adding survivability to avoid immediate punishment.
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Tap an ability for its per-rank numbers. Source: official Tencent data (Chinese server), patch 7.3 — may lead or lag the global server by a sub-patch.
E-auto-Q lands inside a second on ganks — the proc adds the burst that decides early skirmishes.
E (Body Slam) dash triggers penetration magic to amplify the combo.
Converted ganks feed adaptive force — the next barrel hits hard enough to gank the same lane again.
Each kill in jungle boosts his AP to the barrels Q increasingly devastating.
Reduces incoming damage after his E so he survive his propre engage.
