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style="font-style: italic;">The beard is where his true
power comes from.  Or it's just a clever ruse to try and hide
how fat Gragas really is.

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play Gragas is to play the most disruptive hero in
League of Legends.  Gragas
is capable of
charging around the field, dishing out tons of damage with good range,
and has
the most forceful disruption spell in the game in Explosive Cask. style="">  He may be a total lard
ass, but you can
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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Pros

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-
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HP and great
survivability with Drunken Rage regardless of build.

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-
Body Slam goes through walls, up cliffs, and has a huge hitbox just
like
Gragas, giving him great mobility and ganking potential.

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-
Explosive Cask can counter ganks, initiate ganks, save teammates, force
a
fight, and basically do everything an initiator can ask for.

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Can basically be
built any way.  Tank,
hybrid tank, AP
caster, even some attack/crit builds work early on. 

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Cons

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-
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Really
hard to kill
people with late game.  Gragas’
ultimate
scales poorly and the real threat of knockback doesn’t scale at all.

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-
Needs to be drunk at all times in order to do effective damage in
physical
combat or be good at taking damage. 
As
such, if a fight goes on too long, Gragas may need to pause and drink
to remain
durable.

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-
Attacks are all skillshots and can be dodged or even used against you
with
Flash or some skills in the case of Explosive Cask. 
You are only as good as your aim, or as bad
as the other player is.

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- Happy Hour - Anytime Gragas casts a spell,
he regenerates 2% of his max HP over the next 4 seconds.

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Gragas
is a laning monster with this passive. 
It doesn’t matter what you cast, even if you drink, your
HP will start
regenerating.  The
longer a fight goes,
the more you’ll get back over time. 
Even
if you don’t have a target in range, you can cast a spell to get some
HP back
when laning.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Barrel
Roll - Gragas rolls his cask to the target
area, where it will wait for 5 seconds and then explode, or can be
detonated
immediately by pressing Q again once it arrives at the thrown area. style="">  Slows attack speed by
20/25/30/35/40% of targets
hit.  0.9 AP Ratio.

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Gragas’
Q spell has a very, very long range. 
Unfortunately it’s not as good at poking as you think, as
the barrel
does have to roll to the target location before it can be blown. style="">  Note that if your target
runs forward, and
you have it aimed directly on him, you can miss since you cannot
detonate the
barrel until it reaches the location you threw it to. 
Even if you don’t go for an ability power
build, an early point here can be used to deny physical carries or
gankers, and
late game can greatly reduce the power of heroes such as Ashe and
Tryndamere,
who often don’t have a lot of attack speed backing up their powerful
crits.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Drunken
Rage - Gragas takes a sip for a second,
restoring mana at the start and end of the drink. If he finishes the
drink, he
gains 30/40/50/60/70 bonus damage and 10/14/18/22/26% damage reduction
on all
incoming damage for 20 seconds.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">One
of the main
reasons Gragas dominates early on is in this spell. 
This is basically everything you could ask
for.  It gives back
mana and costs
nothing to cast, it increases his physical damage to the point of easy
last
hits and threatening harass, and it even reduces incoming damage to
give him
tower diving potential.  Once
at max
level, Gragas will be as durable as most tanks regardless of items
while this
buff is on him!

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Basically,
stay drunk!  Drink
when it’s up.  Drink
before you engage, drink to victory,
just don’t drink and drive.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Body
Slam - Gragas charges forward, colliding with the
first target in his path and dealing damage to targets in a small area
around
the target.  Splits
the damage dealt
amongst the hit targets and reduces their move speed by 35% for 2.5
seconds.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Body
Slam is the other
big thing going for Gragas early on. 
It’s on a really short cooldown, and after you get it to
level 3, starts
doing massive damage and is quick enough to not be dodged easily. style="">  The more you level it, the
faster it goes and
the more guaranteed damage it does regardless of the targets in the
area.  If you hit a
target alone, Body Slam deals
ridiculous damage regardless of items. 
Body Slam also scales with physical damage, so drinking
before you run
into people will further increase the hurt you put on them, and the
successive
hits you land while they are slowed. 
A
solo Gragas can beat a lot of heroes just by drinking and running into
them
repeatedly, especially if they are ranged and not hanging out nearby
other
targets to split the damage between!

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Use
Body Slam to get around faster and run through cliffs or thin packs of
trees!  Gragas
doesn’t give a damn about
obstacles on the map, or if heroes Flash up cliffs to escape. style="">  Gragas can run them down
and drink them under
the table.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ultimate
- Explosive Cask - Gragas quickly hurls his
cask to an area, dealing 200/325/450 damage. 
Enemies hit by the cask are sent flying in the direction
opposite the
explosion relative to their position. 
1.0 AP ratio, 60 second cooldown.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">If
you don’t fear
Gragas already for his ability to lane, you’ll fear him for his ability
to
initiate and defend his team.  Explosive
Cask sends people a rather large distance, about 600-700 range. style="">  You can use this to save
allies, to stop
retreating foes, to interrupt channeling spells, to blast a carry out
of the
fight, and more.  Between
Body Slam and
Explosive Cask, Gragas is basically impossible to gank barring bad luck
or aim.

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If
you’re going AP caster Gragas, this is your bread and butter right here. style="">  Soften people up with
Barrel Rolls and go for
the one-two kill with a roll into an ultimate.  
Even if you’re not going caster, knock people into you,
and then while
they’re flying, aim your Body Slam right into their new position and
start
putting the hurt on them.  This
is one of
the most dreaded skills in the game to come up against.

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Just
be damn careful with this.  If
you aim
poorly, you might save that enemy, or doom that teammate by knocking
the enemy
carry into him!

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Items may vary by build, but here are a few
basic ones

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Soulstealer -
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is exceptional
at survival and assists.  If
you’re
aggressive early on, you should have no trouble getting a large number
of
stacks on here, which will increase your offensive potency greatly
regardless
of build.

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of the Legion -
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will be in the
thick of it, slamming into people, drinking on their dead bodies and
generally
being a pain in the ass.  You
might as
well pack this to increase the durability of those skinny mages and
carries
around you, and make yourself a good bit tougher in the process.

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Penetration reds, Dodge Yellows, and Cooldown
Reduction blues are the way to go for your basic runes. 
All of your abilities, including Body Slam,
deal magic damage.  Gragas
has no real
need for mana regeneration unless you’re going pure caster, and then
you’ll
probably get regeneration through an Archangel’s Staff anyway. style="">  Cooldown reduction is
important on Gragas in
order to stay drunk and get that all-powerful ultimate back up that
much
quicker.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Masteries

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">It
really depends on how you play him. 
Casters will do 9/0/21 for the cooldown
reduction and magic penetration.  Tanks
will do 9/21/0 for the magic penetration, increased AP over time, and
improved
defenses.  Junglers
will likely do 0/21/9
for the defensive boosts and increased buff duration since a Gragas
with the
Lizard buff is impossible to run away from!

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Spells

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Gragas players can roll with Exhaust and
Ignite at the same time, relying strictly on their basic skills for
survival.  The
combination of those two
give Gragas almost a guaranteed kill if he can single out a target from
the pack
with an Explosive Cask or run into someone in the jungle. style=""> 

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Defensive
players should pack Ghost, which will give
him great chasing potential with Body Slam and Explosive Cask. style="">  Flash is optional with
Body Slam, but Gragas
really should pack Smite if he’s going to the jungle. 
It is possible for Gragas to jungle with only
a red elixir, but inefficient compared to the other Smite-less junglers.

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style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Gragas
is one of those heroes that you see on the
loading screen before combat and you just get annoyed instantly. style="">  Very rarely will a Gragas
player be able to
carry a team to victory through killing power, but his ability to just
be a
pain in the ass is unrivaled.  He
will knock
you around, he will slow you down, he will cripple your carries and
drink on
your corpses.  He is
the Rabble Rouser,
and he is a wonderful addition to any team.


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Last Updated: Mar 13, 2016

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