Cassiopeia vs Gragas Counter Pick

105 games is the smallest sample in this group, so the 42.9% loss rate for Cassiopeia against Gragas on patch 16.13.1 deserves a note of caution before drawing firm conclusions — but the direction lines up with how the kits interact.

Gragas deals mixed damage rather than a single type, complicating Cassiopeia’s usual approach of stacking magic resist against a pure mage or armor against a pure fighter. His passive, Happy Hour, heals him periodically just from using a skill, giving him sustain through Cassiopeia’s poison ticks that a champion without built-in healing wouldn’t have. Body Slam closes distance and stuns on collision, directly threatening the poke pattern Cassiopeia needs to win the lane from range.

Explosive Cask, his ultimate, knocks back anyone caught in the blast, which can interrupt Cassiopeia’s own Petrifying Gaze mid-cast if she’s not positioned carefully. Gragas’s 123 armor at level 18 is high enough to blunt extended poison damage over a long trade, and at only difficulty 5 against Cassiopeia’s maximum 10, he doesn’t need perfect play to make this matchup difficult. His 640 base health also gives him more room to absorb chip damage while closing in than most top-lane targets Cassiopeia is used to poking down from range. Compare both directly at Cassiopeia and Gragas.