Talk:Gragas/@comment-4921223-20141009211249/@comment-4921223-20141012204830

I personally find Gragas's early a bit weak, until he gets RoA he is severely limited by mana, and his base damage on Q at least isn't super great, and since you max it you usually have to use it in a trade (W does good dmg even at rank 1), and that's extremely expensive.

However once he has RoA, he becomes quite strong, Catalyst + his passive gives him really good sustain and all around strong fighting stats (AP, HP) as well as the much needed mana. That's also around the time his Q is around max rank which does decent damage with the AP from RoA, and the additional rank(s) in W makes him much more powerful.

About his E, yes that can happen and it can be annoying, I thought it was a bug and assumed it would be fixed quickly (it has been occuring ever since his Rework). It is very minor, though.