Gragas vs Heimerdinger Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
In Top, this is Gragas versus Heimerdinger — a fighter/mage hybrid against a mage/support hybrid. Over 152 ranked games on patch 16.13.1, Gragas closes out 39.5% of them. A deficit of 10.5 points is what earns Heimerdinger its counter flag in this matchup.
Range decides much of the early game: Heimerdinger attacks from 550 units, Gragas from 125. Gragas has to create the opening before the trade maths turn around — a gap-closer, a freeze, or help from the jungle.
Track Drunken Rage on Gragas and UPGRADE!!! on Heimerdinger — the lane swings on those two. The pressure spikes when Explosive Cask and UPGRADE!!! come online together.
Neither profile surprises the other: Gragas and Heimerdinger are both mixed threats. Level-one bases: Gragas 640 HP / 38 armour / 32 MR, Heimerdinger 558 / 19 / 30. Early physical trades read in Gragas’s favour thanks to 19 more armour. Scaling matters as well: Gragas ends on 2595 HP, Heimerdinger on 2343. Base attack damage is 64 against 56, so Gragas wins the raw auto-attack exchange. Speed reads 330 to 340, handing Heimerdinger the better rotations.
A 8/10 difficulty rating on Heimerdinger, against 5/10, means the sample includes plenty of players still learning it. A 152-game window is wide enough to trust the direction, narrow enough to shift. Data here updates on its own rather than sitting as a fixed snapshot taken on 16.13.1.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Heimerdinger has the statistical edge. Gragas wins 39.5% of the recorded games.
39.5% from Gragas's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
152 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Gragas build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Gragas build page.