This is Toggle's AP Gragas guide, has nothing to do with CDR and/or tanking.
So in this guide i'll be posting my skill path, item build, summoner spells, masteries, runebook and extra thoughts, but I will not be posting his Bio or skill tooltips because I feel that is a big waste of time.
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With that being said here is the skill path I have chosen
1.Barrel Roll
2.Drunken Rage
3.Barrel Roll
4.Body Slam
5.Barrel Roll
6.Explosive Cask
7.Barrel Roll
8.Drunken Rage
9.Barrel Roll
10.Drunken Rage
11.Explosive Cask
12.Drunken Rage
13.Drunken Rage
14.Body Slam
15.Body Slam
16.Explosive Cask
17.Body Slam
18.Body Slam
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Maxing out barrel roll as soon as possible is definitly a need for any AP Gragas build. Being able to time and throw his barrels at the enemy is key to any successfull harassment. Getting 1 spell in Drunken rage will give decent mana gain, the HP regen passive you absolutely need and want plus the drunken rage buff. Getting 1 spell in Body slam is an absolute need mostly for the charge incase for an escape and passive heals. The mana cost on body slam is fairly low so you can use it a lot when retreating or charging the enemy head on.
Here's my pro tip for using all his spells correctly at level 6, throw a barrel in front or at an enemy directly but don't explode it, use explosive cask behind him so it damages and nocks him back into your barrel roll, then explode your barrel roll and charge him with body slam, if done correctly the enemys HP should be low or at 0 depending on how much you harassed him before hand. Also you can use Drunken rage in the bushes so that they enemy has no idea you have the drunken buff on you. |
Philosophers stone(Late game sell for wardens mail or force of nature)
Boots of speed
Mejai's soulstealer
Sorcerer's boots
Rylai's crystal scepter
Void Staff
Zhonya's ring
Second build Recommended when starks fervor is present in your lane.
Mejai's soul stealer
Boots of speed
Giant's belt
Sorcerer's boots
Rylai's crystal scepter
Void staff
Lichbane
Zhonya's ring
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My first item build works great because the HP regen with philosophers stone keeps my survival up till I grab rylai's and stacks enough AP to keep you as a qualifying badass in damage late game. My second item build works even better because you can get mejai's stacked sooner and AP gain grows faster, the downside to this is you need someone to build starks fervor for the lifesteal and Hp regen. Most people get confused and think that a chalice of harmoney will save them early to mid game because of its magic resist but really its the HP regen items that are turning the tides of battle. Don't bother getting rod of ages because rylai's easily tops it with 15% slow from your aoe spells and 500hp gain(Rod of ages gives like what 700hp? pfft 200less ain't much when you consider the other ups to having a rylai's.)
Anyone saying that i'm wrong for not building gragas as a support champion is exactly why so many gragas's fail. My builds all focus on damage, even my zilean build is all damage, you can still be a support champion and deal massive damage if done correctly. many people fail to knotice this but 2 of gragas spells deal up to a max of 300damage, if built right you can deal at the very least 1,000magic damage in AOE, with nockbacks and supportive manuvers. Now if gragas is fed his ap will max to about 550, add that to barrel roll and explosive cask, then what do you get? an assassin of sorts if you ask me. |
Ignite - people really underestimate this spell, at level 18 it deals nearly 500 damage, wich is a lot considering it can save you the trouble of running after someone early to late game. make sure you take your level and calculate the damage ignite will do before you use it, or make sure they have around 100hp or less exactly so that its in the bag.
(off thoughts, make sure they use their heal first before you waste ignite on accident, if you don't know if they have heal or not, go ahead and use it then, they might just forget they have heal.)
Heal - Really I only suggest this to noobs that need healing fast instead of over a period of time, not calling you a noob persay but i'm saying if your a noob.
Rally - if your a skilled player and have rally masteries choose this over heal, it can really boost your ap late game and the healing your team needs to match.
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So I get ignite because it finishs the enemy off and effectively ruins any heals/hp regen during a fight. I get rally because when an enemy thinks they can double on you at half or less hp you can pop a rally to heal you and your teamate while still dealing more damage then the opposing team.
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1 deadlyness
3 archmage's savvy
4 sorcery
1 burning embers
1 archaic knowledge
3 sunder
3 brute force
1 improved rally
3 lethality
1 havoc
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3 perseverence
1 good hands
4 awareness
1 utility mastery
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Explanations, yes of course well Archmage's savvy doesn't give much ap but its still a small bonus, things like deadliness, sunder, brute force and lethality are just there so you can get havoc.(really its a slight advantage)the points in burning embers and improved rally give you the benifits of your summoner spells. The rest is just slight advantage, if you wanted heal and maybe dodge or armor/magic resist go ahead and put the rest of the points in defense, doesn't really matter much.
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Marks 9 "Greater Mark of Insight" +0.95magic penetration each = 8.55!
Glyph 9 "Glyphs 9 "Greater Glyph of Insight" +0.57magic penetration each = 5.13 !
Seals 9 "Greater Seal of Focus" +0.29%cooldown each = %2.61!
Quintessences 3 "Greater Quintessence of Insight" +1.89magic penetration each = 5.67!
Our Total effect = +19.35magic penetration and +%2.61!
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Straight magic pen will make you penetrate 40magic resist with sorcerer's boots giving you the advantage against those enemys that don't build magic resist items, but add it with voidstaff and you'll be dishing 55% more against those with higher end magic resist. The cooldown runes are just a slight refresh on all spells, nothing more.
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Barrel Roll the enemy occasionaly if they aren't going to regen or heal at all, making them waste their HP pots is as critical as pushing your lane and having the advantage in minion count during a lane fight.
Mid game tips
No realy tips here that need to be said, I wouldn't recommend ganking till late game because gragas is pretty slow moving around till he gets something like lichbane. Basicly I recommend pushing your lane and keeping it distracted while still dodging enemy ganks.
Late game tips
Roll with your team or gank on your own, I'd recommend rolling with your team because they need you more and soloing as gragas isn't that easy, hes got a pretty average cooldown refresh on all his ability power spells, so you want to just harass till an aggressive fight, then pull explosive cask to nock an enemy or two into your group of friendlies.
Video gameplay
coming soon...(Yes I understand people wish to see my videos, but there are factors against doing it currently at this time.)
Extra thoughts
Best combos with Gragas seem to be anyone with good damage early to late game, don't try laning with someone that doesn't have enough damage like alistar or Yi, they won't put out as much damage as someone like Gangplank or Fiddlesticks.
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