How to win lane as Vladimir against Gragas · 54.94% win rate over 466 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Gragas | Gragas' base stats and Barrel Roll poke beat you at level 1. |
| Level 2 | Gragas | Drunken Rage lets him tank your trades and win level 2. |
| Level 3 | Gragas | His Q poke plus sustain shoves you off the wave at level 3. |
| Levels 4-5 | Gragas | Through 4-5 his health and damage reduction keep him firmly ahead. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | At 6 pool-dodging his Cask makes the ult trade even skill-based. |
| First item | Even / skill | First-item sustain evens the poke war into a coin-flip. |
| Two+ items | Vladimir | You out-scale his utility-capped kit into the late game. |
Gragas simply out-stats you early — his base health and Drunken Rage (W) damage reduction let him tank your Transfusion pokes, and a well-charged Barrel Roll (Q) chunks you off the wave before you can heal it back.
The full Vladimir 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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