How to win lane as Gragas against Locke · 53.32% win rate over 557 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Gragas | Level 1 is Gragas — Barrel Roll out-ranges everything he does, so you open the chip war and win it. |
| Level 2 | Gragas | Level 2 stays yours: Body Slam plus W sustain wins the melee exchanges he is forced to take. |
| Level 3 | Gragas | Level 3 is Gragas — full poke-and-heal pressure keeps him off the wave entirely. |
| Levels 4-5 | Gragas | Levels 4-5 favor you — Drunken Rage sustain undoes his passive chip faster than he can apply it. |
| Level 6 | Gragas | Level 6 is yours because Explosive Cask knocks him straight out of his own execute range mid-combo. |
| First item | Gragas | First item keeps Gragas ahead — your durability blunts his burst spike while your poke keeps scaling. |
| Two+ items | Gragas | 2+ items stays yours — you outscale as a tanky mage he can never cleanly execute. |
Every stage of this lane is yours, and it starts at level 1: Barrel Roll out-ranges his kit, Body Slam wins the melee moments he is forced into, and Drunken Rage heals whatever chip he lands. Poke on cooldown, run him off waves, and remember his one dream is an execute window — your sustain means it never opens unless you hand it to him.
The full Gragas vs Locke report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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