01 / Gragas
At a glance
Learn Gragas abilities and prepare your first games. Find builds for each supported role.
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Strengths & weaknesses
Tools to play around
- Barrel RollAdds a utility effect to the champion’s kit.
- Drunken RageContributes damage to the champion’s rotation.
- Body SlamCreates a control window for a follow-up.
What can go wrong
- Barrel RollRead the effect and its conditions, then practise it alone. Build your sequence around the effect you can reliably reproduce.
- Drunken RagePractise the hit area and target conditions first. Do not spend the rest of your rotation automatically when the opening damage misses.
- A completed combo is only useful when your position, resources and follow-up are safe.
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Abilities & tips
Open an ability to read its effect and a practical use tip.
PHappy Hour
Gragas periodically heals upon using a skill.
Read the effect and its conditions, then practise it alone. Build your sequence around the effect you can reliably reproduce.
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 slowed.
Read the effect and its conditions, then practise it alone. Build your sequence around the effect you can reliably reproduce.
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.
Practise the hit area and target conditions first. Do not spend the rest of your rotation automatically when the opening damage misses.
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.
Use this control to create a follow-up window. Check the target’s defensive spells and your teammates’ range before committing.
RExplosive Cask
Gragas hurls his cask to a location, dealing damage and knocking back enemies caught in the blast radius.
Use this control to create a follow-up window. Check the target’s defensive spells and your teammates’ range before committing.
Gragas combos: execution and timing
AA = basic attack · EAA = empowered attack · 1/2/3 = cast stage. Follow the order, not instant key presses.
Recast practice: Barrel Roll
- W
- E
- Q1
- AA
- Q2
With Gragas, start with Drunken Rage, then continue through Body Slam → Barrel Roll (Q1) → Basic attack → Barrel Roll (Q2). Treat the repeated Barrel Roll as separate activations. Practise its first effect and the moment for the follow-up independently.
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Game plan by role
Gragas · Top
Keep trades short until you understand the opponent’s main cooldown. Check the minion wave before chasing and preserve a route back to your tower.
Decide between a side-lane push and joining the next objective. Push only as far as your vision and teammate positions allow.
Agree on your job before the fight: pressure a side, threaten a target or protect a carry. Save a key defensive tool when the enemy can turn on you.
Before your next fight, check: Barrel Roll · Explosive Cask · Combos
Gragas · Jungle
Practise a repeatable clear before adding risky invades. Check nearby lane positions before entering the river or committing to a gank.
Prepare objectives by resetting, checking vision and moving with nearby allies. Avoid starting an objective solely because it has spawned.
Keep Smite and your escape plan in mind around contested objectives. Choose between engaging, covering a carry and keeping access to the objective.
Before your next fight, check: Barrel Roll · Explosive Cask · Combos
Gragas · Mid
Use the wave to control when trades happen. Keep a defensive option if the opposing jungler is missing, and avoid forcing a combo into a large enemy wave.
Move after checking the wave, vision and who can follow. A useful roam should not cost several uncontested waves for no clear opportunity.
Fight from a position where you can repeat your useful spells. Look for an opening after enemy control is spent instead of entering first by habit.
Before your next fight, check: Barrel Roll · Explosive Cask · Combos
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Matchup preparation
Compare opponents in the build for the role you are actually playing. Then check their key control, escape and defensive spells before choosing your trade.
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Practice checklist
- Cast each ability alone and identify its range, target conditions and stopping point.
- Practise the first sequence slowly. Repeat it while moving, without skipping the conditions shown on its card.
- After each attempt, identify the spell you would still have available to defend or retreat.
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Gragas · Builds & runes
Choose a role, then select your rank on the build page for runes, items, skill order and matchup statistics.