Back in action with the introduction of Cinderhulk, Gragas is one of those champions that keeps coming back into popularity simply due to the unique nature of his kit. At the moment, he's considered one of the two junglers in the professional scene along with Sejuani. Surprisingly, he also translates over to solo queue well too at all divisions.
Introduction
Back in action with the introduction of Cinderhulk, Gragas is one of those champions that keeps coming back into popularity simply due to the unique nature of his kit.
At the moment, he's considered one of the two junglers in the professional scene along with Sejuani. Surprisingly, he also translates over to solo queue well too at all divisions.
His skill priority is R > Q > W > E and uses a variety of jungle runes ranging from AP/Mag Pen to the standard attack speed red set up found on most tanky junglers.
At the moment, he's considered one of the two junglers in the professional scene along with Sejuani. Surprisingly, he also translates over to solo queue well too at all divisions.
How to Play Jungle Gragas
Currently, his most popular build is tank-centric, revolving around the notorious Cinderhulk (generally with Ranger's) followed by a Righteous Glory Rush into more tank items.His skill priority is R > Q > W > E and uses a variety of jungle runes ranging from AP/Mag Pen to the standard attack speed red set up found on most tanky junglers.
Thoughts on Jungle Gragas
Usually when Gragas makes it to the jungle, we see him there as a direct result of the insane mobility available on his E. However, as that's been nerfed, his R is generally too unreliable for solo queue if that's his main draw.
In the current rendition of Gragas, his benefits are actually somewhat removed from being a simple ult-bot:
- Building pure tank works well as a "meta" cornerstone;
- A lot of his damage is coming from his Cinderhulk and W (high % of hitting);
- Chasing power and great CC with sustained damage;
- Percentage based damage via his W;
- Built-in damage reduction; and
- Engagement/Disengagement with his ultimate.
Conclusions
As he is now, Gragas is excellent in ways that are less obvious. While it's easy to point to "sick plays" made with his ultimate, it's really the combination survivability and continuous CC that he provides at the moment that make him good in solo queue.
Generally not an advocate of "high skill" (aka high risk) champions in solo queue, as he is now, Gragas is indeed strong with a large margin for error.