Having accumulated several more Ranked games on Gragas I've noticed that if you don't have your entry angle just right on the Red Brambleback and Blue Sentimental camps with Body Slam you are liable to clip a Cinderling or Sentry and only get the damage off on the critter that you hit, leaving the other two creatures in the camp undamaged. This is mostly only a big deal on your first clear as on subsequent clears you'll bring more damage so you have more margin for error.

This can also happen with the Murkwolves or the Krugs if you Body Slam into that camp from a weird angle.... Read More

Jungle Starts

-Blue Side-

I prefer to start Red Buff as that thing hurts without armor, so the leash helps you mow through it quicker and Smiting it returns quite a bit of health.

Level Q, Barrel Roll, and lob a barrel into the the area where the Red Brambleback will spawn at 1:51. This will give it time to ferment and explode for maximum damage at 1:55. Tell your laners to back off after two autoattacks so they can make it to lane in time for the minion waves to meet in the middle of their lane (if they don't take off on their own).

If you are concerned about an... Read More

If you watched any of the NA LCS weekend you saw a lot of Gragas in the jungle. I heard someone describe Gragas as the Lee Sin of the Cinderhulk Meta and that is a fairly apt description.

Abilities

Happy Hour provides him with a high amount of sustain.

Barrel Roll does good damage and applies a significant slow especially if you have time to let it ferment, which allows for some interesting play opportunities.

Body Slam provides excellent mobility as well as a stun.

Drunken Rage provides % health damage, which is good against health stackers and the... Read More

Gragas Top

General observation about Gragas Top.

He is a safe pick. You'll likely be able to farm and harass your opponent a bit, and have a good chance of getting out of ganks between Body Slam and Flash, but you probably aren't going to win lane hard enough to make a difference in the match without jungler help or a mistakes on the part of your lane opponent. So, you have to be on the lookout for Teleport ganks to pull ahead of your lane opponent

Gragas vs Rumble

tldr; if you play a farm lane, Rumble has the edge is this matchup due to being... Read More

I dragged the fat man out of the bar last night for a go round in the top lane. Ended up being vs an Elise. Opted to start Crystalline Flask as I didn't know how this match-up goes.

Running 21-9-0 Masteries with Magic Pen Marks, Armor Seals, MR Glyphs, and AP Quints.

I played this late pretty cautiously because I haven't played Gragas in a while and Elise does have hard CC in the form of Cocoon and chase potential in the form of Rappel.

Her harass hurts because of the %current health damage on Neurotoxin and the %missing health damage on Venomous Bite, but so... Read More