Locke vs Gragas — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Locke against Gragas · 46.68% win rate over 557 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Gragas is favoured — Gragas owns 7 of the 7 game windows. Play it patient and win your windows. Locke wins 46.68% of games vs Gragas in top lane (557 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1GragasLevel 1 is Gragas — Barrel Roll (Q) out-ranges you and starts the chip war.
Level 2GragasLevel 2 is Gragas as Body Slam (E) plus W sustain wins the melee trade.
Level 3GragasLevel 3 stays Gragas with full poke-and-heal pressure on the wave.
Levels 4-5GragasLevels 4-5 favour Gragas — his sustain undoes your P damage.
Level 6GragasLevel 6 is Gragas because Cask (R) knocks you out of your execute range.
First itemGragasFirst item keeps Gragas ahead as his durability blunts your burst spike.
Two+ itemsGragas2+ items is Gragas — he out-scales as a tanky mage you can't cleanly execute.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Gragas owns levels 1-2: his Barrel Roll (Q) out-ranges everything you have and Happy Hour (W) refunds the trade damage your P chips in. Don't walk up to last-hit into a charged Q, and never contest melee range while his Body Slam (E) is up.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Locke vs Gragas 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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