How to win lane as Master Yi against Gragas · 45.41% win rate over 185 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Gragas | Gragas's Barrel Roll (Q) poke rules level 1 while you can't reach him. |
| Level 2 | Gragas | His W sustain and Body Slam (E) knockback shut down early level-2 trades. |
| Level 3 | Gragas | At level 3 his poke plus displacement make any all-in you start losing. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Levels 4-5 even out as your lifesteal begins eating his poke — skill window. |
| Level 6 | Master Yi | Highlander (R) at 6 gives you the DPS to out-duel his cooldown poke. |
| First item | Master Yi | Your first lifesteal/attack-speed item wins extended fights against him. |
| Two+ items | Master Yi | Full-crit scaling lets you kill through his W reduction and out-carry him. |
Gragas owns levels 1-3: Barrel Roll (Q) pokes you hard, Drunken Rage (W) reduces the damage of anything you throw back, and Body Slam (E) knocks you out of Alpha Strike range whenever you try to close. Trying to all-in here just feeds his sustain and displacement.
The full Master Yi 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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