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By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026

Gragas Build and Runes — Top Lane and Mid · Patch 26.20

the Rabble Rouser

Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (2,942 games).

Gragas, the Rabble Rouser, rolls a cask that grows stronger the longer it waits and Body Slams into the first enemy he meets. Master+ players took him Top far more than Mid, nearly always with Stormraider's Surge, and Lich Bane opened the path they bought most.

FighterMage

Patch 26.18 · Top · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 2,942 games · Preview sample

Role snapshot (Top)

STier
Win Rate
52.3%
Pick Rate
4.5%
Ban Rate
0.5%

2,942

Games

High

Confidence

Win rate by lane

  • Top52.1% · 2,061 games
  • Mid56.3% · 414 games · small sample

Most common path

77 games

53.2%Win Rate

Start
FlashTeleport

Highest win rate path

36 games

75.0%Win Rate

Start
FlashTeleport

Other first item

45 games

57.8%Win Rate

Start
FlashIgnite

Runes

Patch 26.18

This exact page: taken in 16.0% of games·52.7% win rate over 471 games.

Primary

Sorcery

Stormraider's Surge

Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.

Manaflow Band

Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana. After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.

Transcendence

Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:Level 5: +5 Ability Haste Level 8: +5 Ability Haste Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.

Scorch

Your first damaging ability hit every 10s burns champions.

Secondary

Inspiration

Biscuit Delivery

Gain a free Biscuit every 2 min, until 6 min. Consuming or selling a Biscuit permanently increases your max health and restores health.

Cosmic Insight

+18 Summoner Spell Haste+10 Item Haste

Shards

  • Adaptive Force
  • Adaptive Force
  • Health Scaling

Other keystones taken

  • Arcane Comet9.3% taken · 44.5% win274 games
  • Electrocute8.1% taken · 56.3% win238 games
  • Dark Harvest5.1% taken · 47.0% win149 games

Tree pairs

  • Sorcery + Inspiration51.4% taken · 51.3% win1,513 games
  • Sorcery + Precision18.4% taken · 57.9% win542 games
  • Domination + Sorcery7.6% taken · 54.9% win224 games

Skill Order

Which ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Gragas's most common path.

Q

Barrel Roll

Gragas rolls his cask to a location, which can be activated to explode or will explode on its own after 4 seconds.

Cooldown 10/9/8/7/6s · 80 Mana
W

Drunken Rage

Gragas samples his latest brew for 1 second.

Cooldown 5s · 30 Mana
E

Body 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.

Cooldown 14/13.5/13/12.5/12s · 50 Mana
R

Explosive Cask

Gragas hurls his cask to a location, dealing damage and knocking back enemies caught in the blast radius.

Cooldown 100/85/70s · 100 Mana

Max Order

QEW

Max Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).

Level-up Order

  • Q
  • W
  • E
  • R
Ability123456789101112131415161718
QBarrel RollQQQQQ
WDrunken RageWWWWW
EBody SlamEEEEE
RExplosive CaskRRR

Matchup map (Top)

How Gragas performs against enemy top laners

Levels 1 – 18 · Master+40%60%Gragas's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
< 40%Very hard

Conditional build matrix

Recommended items by enemy team composition

Master+ · Patch 26.18
Mythic / CoreFirst major item
Core 2Second item
Core 3Third item
BootsBoot slot
SituationalPick as needed

Scaling — minute 10–30

GragasTop average

Gold

102030

Damage to champions

102030

CS

102030

Counter plan — how to beat Gragas

  • Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives

  • Dodge the primary — its rotation is one skillshot; sidestep it and the rest is chip

  • Punish the cooldown — Gragas is exposed while its rotation is down

  • Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one

  • Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 5/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average

Ability details

  • P

    Happy Hour

    Gragas periodically heals upon using a skill.

    Passive — never cast

  • Q

    Barrel 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.

    Cost 80 ManaCooldown 10/9/8/7/6sRange 850

  • W

    Drunken 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.

    Cost 30 ManaCooldown 5sRange 20

  • E

    Body 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.

    Cost 50 ManaCooldown 14/13.5/13/12.5/12sRange 600

  • R

    Explosive Cask

    Gragas hurls his cask to a location, dealing damage and knocking back enemies caught in the blast radius.

    Cost 100 ManaCooldown 100/85/70sRange 1000

Gragas balance history

Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Gragas in 1 patch. The latest is patch 26.9, published 2026-04-28.

  1. Patch 26.92026-04-28

    WDrunken Rage

    • Damage Reduction10 / 12 / 14 / 16 / 18% (+ 4% per 100 AP)to10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 (+ 4% per 100 AP)
    Why, in Riot's words

    Gragas top is most impacted by the removal of Phase Rush, and only time will tell whether Grasp or Comet comes out on top. As we wait to see how his laning shakes out, this change should let Gragas players better frontline for their teams, and have a bigger impact in the late-game where they struggle most.

Gragas skins (15)

Riot's data lists 15 looks for Gragas with their own art, the base skin included and 33 chroma variants.

ARAM performance

EstimateS
Win Rate
53.5%
▼ 0.8%
Pick Rate
1.5%
▲ 4.9%
Ban Rate
0.2%
▼ 2.0%
Damage dealt
99.0%
Damage taken
98.7%
Healing
106.8%
Shielding
93.8%
Ability Haste
+5

Best ARAM build

Patch timeline

Riot’s notes

This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.

  1. 26.1953.0% over 893 games · small sample+0.1
  2. 26.1852.8% over 1,569 games+0.7
  3. 26.1749.7% over 467 games · small sample—

Gragas's base stats against all 173 champions

  • Gragas's health per level of 115 is the 9th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 4 others).
  • Gragas's base armor of 38 is the 9th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 4 others).
StatGragasRankMedian
Base health640=48th620
Health per level115=9th104
Base armor38=9th30
Armor per level5=18th4.6
Base magic resist32=32nd32
Magic resist per level2.05=4th1.55
Base attack damage64=29th59
Base attack speed0.67532nd0.656
Attack speed per level2.05%118th2.5%
Move speed330=117th335
Attack range125=129th175

Gragas at level 1 and level 18

  • Gragas reaches 2595 health at level 18 — 640 at level 1 plus 17 × 115, the 11th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20.
  • Gragas reaches 1199 mana at level 18 — 400 at level 1 plus 17 × 47, the 44th-highest of 145 mana users on patch 26.20, shared with 1.
  • Gragas reaches 123 armor at level 18 — 38 at level 1 plus 17 × 5, the 13th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20.
  • Gragas reaches 66.85 magic resist at level 18 — 32 at level 1 plus 17 × 2.05, the 5th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20, shared with 69.
StatLevel 1Per levelLevel 18Rank at 18
Health640+115259511th of 173
Mana400+471199=44th of 145
Armor38+512313th of 173
Magic resist32+2.0566.85=5th of 173

Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.

Riot's tips for Gragas

Playing Gragas

  • The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
  • Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
  • Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.

Playing against Gragas

  • Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
  • Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.

Quick answers about Gragas

What class is Gragas?
Riot classes Gragas as Fighter and Mage. This site files the champion under Top.
How hard is Gragas to play?
Riot rates Gragas's difficulty 5 out of 10.
What resource does Gragas use?
Gragas's abilities spend Mana.
What is Gragas's attack range?
125 units — the lowest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 44 others).
What are Gragas's abilities?
Passive — Happy Hour, Q — Barrel Roll, W — Drunken Rage, E — Body Slam and R — Explosive Cask.
How many skins does Gragas have?
Riot's data lists 15 skins with their own art, the base look included, plus 33 chroma variants.
How much health does Gragas have at level 18?
2595 — 640 at level 1 plus 17 × 115 per level, Riot's own values, before items and runes.
What is Gragas's ultimate cooldown?
Explosive Cask (R): 100/85/70 seconds by rank, before ability haste, in Riot's Data Dragon 16.20.1.
When did Riot last change Gragas?
Patch 26.9, published 28 April 2026 — the latest of 1 patch that change Gragas in Riot's notes from 25.S1.1 to 26.20.

Gragas at a glance

Gragas, the Rabble Rouser, is a Fighter and Mage champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 5/10 for difficulty, 4/10 for attack, 7/10 for defense and 6/10 for magic. Gragas spends Mana and has 15 skins with their own art. Gragas's health per level of 115 is the 9th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 4 others). Gragas's base armor of 38 is the 9th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 4 others).

Attack4/10
Defense7/10
Magic6/10
Difficulty5/10

Gragas's story

Equal parts jolly and imposing, Gragas is a massive, rowdy brewmaster who's always on the lookout for new ways to raise everyone's spirits. Hailing from parts unknown, he searches for ingredients among the unblemished wastes of the Freljord to help him perfect his latest concoction. He is impulsive, headstrong, and renowned for the brawls he starts, which often end in all-night parties and widespread property damage. Any appearance from Gragas must surely foreshadow merriment and destruction—in that order.
— Riot Games, Data Dragon 16.20.1. League of Legends Universe

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Methodology

Data window
Preview sample — a one-time snapshot of 65,406 ranked games (Master+, EUW/KR/NA, patch 26.18), counted by GamGem while our Riot production key is under review. Figures will update daily once it is approved. Counted 26–27 Sept 2026; patches 26.18 (35,477) · 26.19 (18,580) · 26.17 (11,048) · 26.16 (293) · 26.15 (8); by server EUW 22,382 · KR 21,922 · NA 21,065 · EUNE 20 · TR 17. 642 games without a result — remakes ended by vote in their first minutes, and games recorded with no winner — were not counted.
Rank aggregation
Master, Grandmaster and Challenger, pooled — the three ladders the count read its players from. Splitting further leaves samples too small to separate a real effect from noise.
Role assignment
A champion is filed under every lane that holds at least a tenth of its counted games — the position the match itself reports, not the champion’s class. Its headline win rate is across all of them; each lane’s own win rate and games are counted too, and a lane’s tier list ranks by them.
Counters
The two champions in the same position on opposite teams, over that pairing’s own counted games — ranked on the edge pulled toward zero by its sample size, printed raw.
Minimum sample
None — no figure is hidden for being thin. Every rate prints its games, and the confidence band is its 95% margin: Very High within ±1.5 points, High ±2.5, Moderate ±3.1 (1,000 games), Low wider.
Why a build is not a cause
An item is counted when the match ENDS with it, so late items show long games and an item bought when already ahead shows games that were being won. Correlation is what a rate can show; it is not evidence that buying the item caused the win.
Where the numbers come from
Names, classes, abilities, items and runes are Riot Data Dragon. Win, pick and ban rates, builds, keystones, spells and matchups are counted by GamGem from Riot's ranked match records. An estimate, not a count: this panel is not in the preview sample, and is labelled so.

Gragas on video

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