4/17/2017 Update: I updated the build for this guide, and I will be looking to update the content of the actual guide itself sometime in the upcoming month.

Hey everyone, I'm Pluckin Penguin, and welcome to my Gragas guide. I've been playing League of Legends since late Season 1, and I am currently a Diamond I Jungle Main in dynamic queue. In addition to that, I am also the starting jungler for North Carolina State University's Collegiate Star League Team.

Gragas has been one of my favorite champions since Season 1. I was inspired by Shushei's astounding AP Gragas performance at the Season 1 World Championship; however, Gragas has gone through a rework since then and now has an incredibly different play style. As of 2/25, I have a 67% win rate on Gragas in 12 games played with a 6.32 KDA. I hope that my guide will be able to enrich your knowledge and performance on Gragas!

Pros	Cons
> Strong duelist for a tank jungler > Extremely tanky > Strong ganker after level six > Versatile team fighter > Strong disengage with ultimate	> Can be very reliant upon Flash > Does not snowball well > Your ultimate can backfire on you > Is relatively prone to early game counter-jungling

Ferocity Fury vs Sorcery: Gragas can make much more use of the ability damage provided by Sorcery then the attack speed provided by Fury . Double Edged Sword vs Feast : Both masteries are viable options, but I personally prefer the increased damage provided by Double Edged Sword over the sustain from Feast

Cunning Wanderer vs Savagery : As nice as the out of combat movement speed is, Gragas can really make efficient use of Savagery 's bonus damage to monsters to clear the jungle faster. Runic Affinity vs Secret Stash vs Assassin : Secret Stash isn't very useful for junglers in general, and Assassin isn't very applicable to Gragas because you usually rely on your teammates for follow up. Thus, extended buff duration from Runic Affinity is the best choice.

Resolve Recovery vs Unyielding : Bonus magic resist and bonus armor will take a very long time to become more useful than the health regeneration provided by Recovery . Explorer vs Tough Skin : Bonus movement speed in the brush and river can be quite useful, but the damage reduction really helps Gragas stay at a reasonable health percentage in his early clears. Runic Armor vs Veteran's Scars : Honestly, both of these masteries are very good and can substitute on another. Veteran's Scars is very useful if you are engaging in multiple early game engagements, but once you have some health Runic Armor will being to substantially increase the health from Happy Hour. Insight vs Perseverance : There is no reason to pass up on reduced cool down for summoner spells when Flash is so important for Gragas. Swiftness vs Legendary Guardian : Both masteries are pretty good, but I personally prefer the tenacity reduction to help avoid sticky situations. Grasp of the Undying vs Strength of the Ages vs Bond of Stone : Grasp of the Undying is useless for junglers and should be used exclusively on laners, and Bond of Stone is much more useful for supports and doesn't provide much for you early on. Strength of the Ages is currently the preferred keystone for all junglers in professional play due to the ample amount of flat health it provides.

Marks of Attack Speed are standard on tank junglers because they help increase clear speed significantly. Additionally, attack speed can come in handy for any of the early-mid game skirmishes you encounter. Alternative: Greater Mark of Magic Penetration

Seals of Armor are standard for most junglers, and jungle Gragas is no different. If you don't own any runes and would like to jungle, armor seals are very critical to maintaining a decent health bar in the jungle.

Seals of Scaling Health are commonly seen in combination with armor seals on champions with decent sustain who do not necessarily need the full nine armor. These seals will give you a pretty noticeable amount of health in the mid-game. Alternatives: Greater Seal of Armor

Glyphs of Cooldown Reduction are very beneficial for Gragas as he is very reliant on his abilities for damage and crowd control. In addition, these glyphs do speed up your jungle clearing and increase your dueling potential. Alternatives: Greater Glyph of Ability Power, Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist, Greater Glyph of Magic Resist

Glyphs of Ability Power will provide you with some extra early game power to aid with clearing and dueling, but these can be replaced with the alternative listed below. Alternatives: Greater Glyph of Ability Power, Greater Glyph of Magic Resist

Quintessences of Ability Power give Gragas a faster jungle clear and a noticeable damage increase in any early game skirmishes. Also, given the fact that most of Gragas's abilities are area of effect and have decent ability power ratios, these quintessences help out immensely. Alternatives: Greater Quintessence of Armor

Flash is a must-have on almost every champion in the game. Furthermore, it is a necessity to have Flash on Gragas if you have any hopes of engaging with a Body Slam + Flash combo (more on that later).

Smite is a must-have summoner spell for all junglers. Smite enables you to secure objectives, speed up your jungle clear, and obtain buffs from jungle camps. Above all, Smite allows you to purchase Hunter's Machete, Hunter's Talisman, and your eventual jungle item enchantment.

Happy Hour: This passive makes Gragas much tankier than he seems, and provides him an incredible amount of sustain. With an eight second cooldown, this passive can become very useful in extended fights early on in the game.

• Keep an eye on Happy Hour's cooldown during your first few clears to make sure that you are using your other abilities to get maximum efficiency out of Happy Hour
• Drunken Rage only has a 30 mana cost and a fairly short cooldown meaning it a very efficient way to trigger Happy Hour while roaming around the map.

Barrel Roll: This is your main damage source in the early game and a wonderful ganking tool. If you are able to let the barrel sit for a little bit before casting it, the extra damage makes it an effective tool for clearing jungle camps, and minion waves.

• Your barrel will turn a bright red when it is fully fermented and able to amplify the and damage by 150%.
• This ability can be cast during your Body Slam animation which is very useful if you're trying to burst a target.
• Don't get too greedy and try to let your barrel ferment for the maximum amount of time in combat.

Drunken Rage: This is a very spammable single target damage spell in which Gragas bops his target with his barrel. This ability also makes Gragas incredibly tanky with the substantial amount of damage reduction the Drunken Rage steroid provides.

• Try to charge up Drunken Rage as you're about to gank a lane.
• Due to the fact that you can't auto attack while casting Drunken Rage, try to position yourself in the best position possible during its casting animation.
• Ensure that you are spamming this ability all of the time in skirmishes to significantly reduce the damage you take.

Body Slam: An essential part of Gragas's kit when it comes to ganking, mobility, and engaging. Your ability to hit Body Slam makes it much easier to land the other abilities in Gragas's kit.

• Flash can be casted during Body Slam to extend the range, or redirect it.
• After a brief knock back, Body Slam stuns your target. Thus, be aware of which enemies have either Cleanse or Quicksilver Sash.
• You can use Body Slam to hop walls and avoid wards.

Explosive Cask: This is a very strong disengage and displacement tool that's use will define your mastery of Gragas. In certain situations, Explosive Cask can also make for a splendid engagement tool as well.

• Explosive Cask can be cast during your Body Slam which allows you to hide Explosive Cask's animation and potentially catch an enemy off guard.
• Be extra cautious when using Explosive Cask as it may backfire on you if you knock the wrong enemy away or back into your team.
• Your ultimate can be used to disrupt an enemy's attempt at engaging. For example, after an enemy champion engages, look to potentially throw an Explosive Cask to knock away the enemy team's backline to significantly reduce follow up damage.

For obvious reasons, you are going to want to take a point in Explosive Cask at levels 6, 11, and 16. Aside from your ultimate, you should max out your Barrel Roll as soon as possible because it does decent damage in the early-mid game, and maxing Barrel Roll significantly increases your jungle clearing speed. After maxing your Barrel Roll, you should max out Body Slam to reduce its cool down allowing you to have great sticking potential with the reduced cooldown. Lastly, you will want to put your final points into Drunken Rage.

I would highly recommend sticking to this ability sequence, but it is also a viable option to max out Drunken Rage second instead of Body Slam. This ability sequence used to be far more popular before the Body Slam cooldown nerfs from earlier in the season.

Starting Items

Hunter's Talisman: This item grants Gragas an immense amount of sustain in the jungle allowing him to easily farm the jungle without starting with three Health Potions. In addition to these benefits, if you do end up getting a lot of gold prior to your first back, you can potentially delay Tracker's Knife, and purchase Aether Wisp + Amplifying Tome without missing out on the mana regeneration, a problem that you might experience if you start Hunter's Machete.

Refillable Potion: If you aren't planning on ganking sometime before your first back, then Refillable Potion is the start for you. Additionally, Refillable Potion will likely save you 100-200g on Health Potions over the course of the game. If you are planning on skirmishing before your first back, I'd highly recommend starting 3 Health Potions instead to maintain the highest health you can for dueling. NOTE: I would not recommend upgrading Refillable Potion to Hunter's Potion because it shouldn't be too difficult to manage Gragas's mana pool.

Warding Totem: Everybody starts the game with this trinket for a reason. Stealth Ward can aid you in safely prevent an enemy invade early on in the game, and lights up the map to hopefully locate the whereabouts of the enemy jungler. I would hold onto this trinket until you are level nine and can swap it out for the Oracle Lens.

Core Items

Tracker's Knife: This item essentially is just a more cost-efficient Sightstone for junglers, and it is excellent on Gragas. Simply due to vision it provides, this item can allow for you to make more calculated plays, and potentially fend off any of the enemy's aggressive plays. The drawback of purchasing this item is that you don't have the dueling power of Stalker's Blade or Skirmisher's Sabre. Therefore, be very careful when involving yourself with the enemy jungler if they have invested in Stalker's Blade or, especially, Skirmisher's Sabre. Stalker's Blade and Skirmisher's Sabre are both viable replacements for Tracker's Knife.

Enchantment: Runic Echoes: Gragas can make very efficient use of all aspects of Enchantment: Runic Echoes. The ability power and Luden's Tempest-esque passive provided significantly increases your clear speed, and mana regeneration. Additionally, the immense movement speed provided by Enchantment: Runic Echoes allows you to apply a lot of pressure across the map, and chase down fleeing enemies. Enchantment: Cinderhulk is a viable replacement for Enchantment: Runic Echoes, but I would only recommend purchasing Enchantment: Cinderhulk if you are behind.

Oracle Alteration: A very powerful trinket throughout the mid-late game that allows you to clear out all vision around the dragon to baron area in one activation if you have one or two teammates help you out. Ideally, you will want to replace your initial Stealth Ward with this around level nine.

Boots

Boots of Swiftness: Currently, these boots out class their counterpart Mobility Boots in a variety of aspects and are standard across almost all junglers. They allow you to move around at a significant speed while in and out of combat, and in addition, are cheaper than the other boot choices by a decent margin. On another note, I would highly recommend trying to buy these boots early on in the game, ideally after you complete your Enchantment: Cinderhulk. I would make these boots your default choice until the other boot choices are buffed or Boots of Swiftness are nerfed.

Ionian Boots of Lucidity: If you are snowballing and/or massively ahead of the enemy jungler, I would highly recommend Ionian Boots of Lucidity. They significantly reduce the cool down for Flash and your abilities while also being very cheap to purchase.

Mercury's Treads: The magic resistance on Mercury's Treads may be nice, but the primary reason for buying these boots is for the tenacity they provide. I would recommend purchasing these boots against teams with 3 or more forms stuns, taunts, fears, silences, snares, or roots. Getting these boots early on may allow for you to safely itemize armor without sacrificing too much magic resist.

Ninja Tabi: If you can't justify purchasing Mercury's Treads, then Ninja Tabi should be your ideal choice of boots. They provide immense resistance against marksman, and other auto-attack reliant champions in the game. Another situation in which you may opt to purchase Ninja Tabi is if you are facing a team composition that is entirely or almost entirely physical damage.

Armor

Dead Man's Plate: This is my typical first purchase after Enchantment: Cinderhulk for multiple reasons. Dead Man's Plate grants Gragas not only a little bit more damage, but a little bit more crowd control and movement speed. I would recommend purchasing this item when the enemies' primary threat is physical damage, and you are even or ahead of the enemy jungler.

Frozen Heart: A stellar first item choice against attack speed reliant team compositions, or perhaps a couple strong physical damage dealers. This item is superb on Gragas due to the immense cool down reduction and armor it provides. If you do purchase this item first, be careful around enemy mages because your only defense against them will be your health from Enchantment: Cinderhulk.

Randuin's Omen: This item is a great purchase as a second or third armor item in most situations, but I would definitely not recommend purchasing this as a first item. The majority of the value in Randuin's Omen is the reduced damage from critical strikes which doesn't really come in handy until the enemy marksman has 2 or more core items completed. Consider switching Dead Man's Plate out for Randuin's Omen in the late game when you're already six items as Randuin's Omen provides significantly more durability.

Thornmail: Similarly to Randuin's Omen, this item is best purchased later on in the game. The reasoning for this is primarily due to the fact that Thornmail's passive's damage is significantly increased by how much armor you have already purchased. Typically, Thornmail will be the final armor item that you purchase.

Magic Resist

Locket of the Iron Solari: This is a great supportive magic resist item that sacrifices individual tankiness for a tanky aura that is shared with the team. I would highly recommend purchasing this item early on in the game if you are facing a double AP composition (e.g. Kennen Top, Brand Mid). However, this item should also be purchased in situations where you are facing a fed AoE (area of effect) mage (e.g. Ziggs). Ensure that you communicate with your support when you purchase this item because double Locket of the Iron Solari is not ideal in most situations. If you have a tank top laner, consider putting a higher priority on this item because it will be important to keep your carries alive in a double tank team composition.

Spirit Visage: Ideally, you would like to get this as your first magic resist item on Gragas for the extra healing from Happy Hour, and cool down reduction. This item provides Gragas with a substantial amount of health, magic resist, and cool down reduction. Spirit Visage should be your first magic resist item when it is neither the appropriate situation to purchase Locket of the Iron Solari (Not facing double AP or AoE Mage) nor the appropriate situation to purchase Banshee's Veil (Little benefit from spell shield).

Banshee's Veil: This item is spectacular on Gragas because the spell shield from Banshee's Veil allows you to engage without getting interrupted by a pesky crowd control ability. However, I would be hesitant about purchasing this item if you are against a team that can easily pop your Banshee's Veil, or doesn't necessarily have any important abilities that need blocking.

Damage

Abyssal Scepter: First of all, I would not recommend purchasing Abyssal Mask unless you are extremely ahead, or you are take on the role of a secondary tank on your team. This item lets you output a lot more damage than Iceborn Gauntlet with the magic resist reducing aura. I would recommend this item if you are on a heavy magic damage team, or you are facing a large amount of magic damage.

Iceborn Gauntlet: First of all, I would not recommend purchasing Iceborn Gauntlet unless you are extremely ahead, or you are take on the role of a secondary tank on your team. This item provides a neat passive that allows you to perma-slow enemies and engage in very prolonged duels. The issue with this item is primarily that it sacrifices a lot of needed tankiness, and the only way to really make use of this item is if you are tanky enough to apply your passive multiple times in fights.

Rod of Ages: Compared to the other damage items you should consider on Gragas, Rod of Ages is a long term investment. It is extremely important with the current fast-paced meta that if you are going to build a Rod of Ages that you do so quickly so you can fully stack it. That being said, if you are considering purchasing this item, you HAVE to purchase it immediately after your Enchantment: Cinderhulk or Enchantment: Runic Echoes.

Other

Zz'Rot Portal: This item provides a good mix of armor and magic resist, and, in addition, it provides you with a placeable portal that summons voidlings to generate side lane pressure or help with sieges. Another added benefit of Zz'Rot Portal is that it provides you with bonus movement speed when near towers (i.e. provides noticeable movement speed when fighting inside of a lane most of the time).

Righteous Glory: This is a very strong item if your team has weak engage, or you are relied upon for engage. In terms of stats, it provides a decent chunk of health, but the durability it provides is lacking in comparison to some of the armor and magic resist items I've listed above. You should aim to purchase this item quite early into the game, but I would definitely not recommend purchasing it if you fall behind early on in the game.

Sightstone: This item is seldom used with the existence of the Tracker's Knife jungle item, but it is still a viable means to gain vision control if you have opted for either Stalker's Blade or Skirmisher's Sabre. If you do purchase this item, ensure that you upgrade it into one of its various upgrades later on in the game to make its slot more efficient. However, don't

General Tips

• Always try to think at least thirty seconds ahead, so you don't waste time fumbling over what to do next.
• Be careful about clearing the Rift Scuttler if your nearby lanes don't have enough pressure to cover you if the enemy jungler finds you.
• Consider giving Blue Sentinel to your mid laner on your second clear.
• You can use your Body Slam to stun the Rift Scuttler and do significantly increased damage to it.
• Try to save a charge of Smite before ganking if you have opted for either Stalker's Blade or Skirmisher's Sabre.
• Make sure you position yourself so all jungle monsters are hit by Body Slam.
• All of Gragas's ability have a cast animation, and, thus, it is best to cast them right after auto-attacking when clearing the jungle in order to cancel some of your auto-attack animation.
• You can start on the top lane side of your jungle if your bot lane plans on starting a camp before they go to lane. If this is the case, simply follow the jungle route that you would normally perform on the opposite side (i.e. If you are on the red side and you start on the top side of your jungle, then follow the clearing order that you would for the blue side).

Raptors Clear

Clear Summary: Start with Hunter's Talisman + Refillable Potion. Head over to the Crimson Raptor. Level up Barrel Roll. Have mid lane assist you with the Crimson Raptor if possible by damaging the small raptors and clear it. Level up Drunken Rage. Head over to the Red Brambleback. Use your first charge of your Refillable Potion. Kite and clear the Red Brambleback with Smite, and head over to the Blue Sentinel. Clear the Blue Sentinel, and level up Body Slam. Head over to the Gromp, and clear it. Head over to the Greater Murk Wolf, and clear it. You can now look to gank a nearby lane, go to the nearby scuttle crab, or go back to base.

NOTE: Your clear will be significantly healthier if you learn how to kite the Red Brambleback and Blue Sentinel efficiently.


Blue Sentinel Clear

Clear Summary: Start with Hunter's Talisman + Refillable Potion. Head over to the Blue Sentinel. Level up Barrel Roll, and use Barrel Roll on Blue Sentinel's spawn at 1:37. Have the nearby side=lane assist you with the Blue Sentinel and clear it. Level up Drunken Rage. Head over to the Greater Murk Wolf. Clear the Greater Murk Wolf, and head over to the Red Brambleback. Clear the Red Brambleback, and level up Body Slam. Head over to the Ancient Krug, and clear it. Head over to the Crimson Raptor, and clear it. You can now look to gank a nearby lane, go to the nearby scuttle crab, or go back to base.

NOTE: Your clear will be significantly faster and healthier if you are provided a leash from your laners on the first camp of your clear.


Red Side Clear

Clear Summary: Start with Hunter's Talisman + Refillable Potion. Head over to the Red Brambleback. Level up Barrel Roll, and use Barrel Roll on Red Brambleback's spawn at 1:37. Have the nearby side=lane assist you with the Red Brambleback and clear it. Level up Drunken Rage. Head over to the Greater Murk Wolf. Clear the Greater Murk Wolf, and head over to the Blue Sentinel. Clear the Blue Sentinel, and level up Body Slam. Head over to the Gromp, and clear it. Head over to the Crimson Raptor, and clear it. You can now look to gank a nearby lane, go to the nearby scuttle crab, or go back to base.

NOTE: Your clear will be significantly faster and healthier if you are provided a leash from your laners on the first camp of your clear.

General Tips

• Knowledge of the enemy jungler's whereabouts can allow for you to take more calculated risks, or potentially set up a countergank scenario. Tracker's Knife and Vision Wards are critical to establishing the vision control in order to find the enemy jungler's location to accomplish this.
• Consider focusing your vision control around your laners that are most prone to being ganked. This will usually give you opportunities to countergank or just prevent the enemy's gank opportunity altogether.
• Ask your laners for information on where the enemy has placed wards in order to make the stealthiest gank possible.
• I would highly recommend communicating to your teammates with a significant amount of pings when you are ganking to ensure that they are on the same page as you.
• Don't be afraid to gank a lane if you cannot kill the enemy. In some scenarios, it can be quite effective to gank just to pressure an enemy out of lane, or burn one of their summoner spells.

Who to Gank and When to Gank Them



Before Level Six

• While approaching the enemy champion, begin charging up your Drunken Rage.
• If you are in range for Body Slam, go for it. If not consider the possibility of Body Slam + Flashing or using Barrel Roll to slow the enemy. Only use Body Slam + Flash if your teammate can easily help you finish the enemy off during the duration of the crowd control, or if the enemy champion is fairly easy to gank when their Flash is down (Reasoning: They will likely have to Flash after you Body Slam + Flash.
• If you connect Body Slam, use your Barrel Roll immediately after if you can burst them during the duration of the crowd control. If you cannot burst the enemy, then you should save Barrel Roll until the Body Slam crowd control has finished to layer your crowd control efficiently.
• If you have approached an enemy from behind, don't use your Body Slam because the enemy will have to run towards you to escape or fight it out. Use your Body Slam once they gain some separation distance from you.
• If the enemy champion Flashes your Body Slam (a common occurrence), throw your barrel at their Flash location and consider whether or not it is worth to pursue the gank any further.

After Level Six

• Charge up your Drunken Rage as approaching the enemy. If you are in Body Slam range, Body Slam the enemy and immediately cast Explosive Cask to knock them into your laner (assuming the enemy isn't capable of killing your laner). Be careful about using your Drunken Rage auto attack before casting Explosive Cask. There is a window where the enemy is able to Flash out before your Explosive Cask lands if you auto attack after Body Slam, but casting Explosive Cask immediately after Body Slam guarantees for the Explosive Cask to connect.
• If you are not in range of Body Slam, you have three options: do the combo described above with Body Slam + Flash instead, go for the Explosive Cask to knock the enemy back, or Body Slam to get in range of tossing Explosive Cask.
• Don't be afraid to use your Explosive Cask to finish off low health enemies.
• In general, tower dives should only be performed when you have a significant advantage over the enemy lane and have the knowledge to execute the tower dive in a safe manner.
• In most tower diving situations, either you or the support will tank the tower while allowing for your allies to exert the maximum amount of damage possible.

Ganking through Lane

• The idea of ganking through lane is to simply sneak through the brushes in either the top or bottom lane and punish the enemy's aggression or engage on the enemy yourself when they get close to the brush.
• An advantage of an in-lane gank is its surprise factor because this style of ganking is not all that common especially at lower rankings.
• The primary reasons to lane gank would be if the enemy laner has warded the other means of ganking or if the enemy's minion wave is pushing. The reason why you want the enemy's wave to be pushing is due to the fact that the enemy will be forced to move up the lane closer to your location if their minions are pushing.
• Execution of a gank through the lane is no different than what is stated above, but usually requires a little bit more patience then your standard gank.

General Tips

• Body Slam + Flash is a very useful combo on Gragas, so I would advise you to avoid team fights where your Flash isn't up.
• Ensure that you layer your forms of crowd control with your allies.
• Don't underestimate the value of using Explosive Cask merely to disorient the enemy team's positioning. This is especially useful if you can prevent the enemy carries from being able to do damage for a couple seconds or more.
• You can use Explosive Cask as a means of disengage if you don't want to engage in a fight at the moment.
• Body Slam + Flashing on an enemy carry can be used merely to disrupt an enemy carry, or to catch them out when they misposition in the fight.

Initiation

• When to Initiate:

• How to Initiate: You can initiate in the exact same way that you would gank an enemy after level six. You can engage by simply throwing your Explosive Cask and knocking someone back (use Body Slam if you need to get closer to toss your Explosive Cask), or you can use Body Slam or Body Slam + Flash followed up by an Explosive Cask.

Peeling

• When to Peel:

• How to Peel: You should stand between the enemy you are trying to peel off of your ally and your ally in order to block skillshots and force the enemy to path around you. In addition to that, use your forms of crowd control in order to keep the enemy off of your ally; however, don't forget that killing a threat is the best way to nullify it.

Standard Combos
These combos are the most important combos to know how to execute in order to play Gragas at a high level. These combos are best used in order to catch an enemy out of position. Thus, these combos are also very effective when ganking an enemy laner.









Burst Combos
These combos are primarily seen when playing AP Gragas, but still have some uses if you are playing the standard tank Gragas. These combos are best used in order to finish off a low health enemy or damage them as much as possible. You will rarely (once every five or so games) find proper situations to use these combos, but they are nice to know.

My Gameplay

Even though I am just a Diamond IV player, I can take pride in my mechanical skill on Gragas. If you are ever interested in watching some of my recent Gragas gameplay, simply head over to my page on Replay GG, a LoL replay website, and you will have access to replays for any of the match-made games I have played in the past seven days. In addition to being able to watch my recent gameplay via Replay.gg, I will try to upload some of the better Gragas games to learn from to my YouTube channel.

Pluckin Penguin's Gragas Gameplay Patch: 6.3 Game Description: This game is a good example of Gragas's role as a disengaging tank against a team with heavy amounts of engage. When watching the video, please ensure that you turn on annotations for valuable commentary. Link to YouTube video

Professional Gameplay

IEM San Jose: TSM vs LGD Game 1 (Svenskeren) Patch: 5.21 (Before Pre-Season 6 changes) Game Description: This game was quite sloppy by both sides from a macro stand point, but Svenskeren certainly showcases his ability to play Gragas throughout the course of the game. Link to VOD from Svenskeren's Perspective

IEM San Jose: CLG vs UOL Game 1 (Xmithie) Patch: 5.21 (Before Pre-Season 6 changes) Game Description: A much cleaner game than the TSM vs LGD game, and a very good display of the power of Explosive Cask when it comes to picking off enemies. Link to VOD from Xmithie's Perspective

IEM San Jose: CLG vs UOL Game 2 (Xmithie) Patch: 5.21 (Before Pre-Season 6 changes) Game Description: A relatively clean game that showcases the varying uses of Explosive Cask (burst, engage, disruption, disengage, pick). Link to VOD from Xmithie's Perspective

Special Thanks To...

• jhoijhoi: I made use of some of her wonderful templates from her guide about Making A Guide.
• PsiGuard: I modeled a good portion of this guide off of PsiGuard's well-made Nocturne Guide, Haunt the Jungle.
• utopus: For giving me a lot of constructive criticism to help improve my guide.
• NCSU Team Alpha: For allowing me to perfect my Gragas play in a team environment.