Talk:Gragas/@comment-166.248.65.98-20120812062228/@comment-96.40.168.169-20120813010036

It's because he can spellfarm, self sustain both mana and hp, and has inbuilt escape / damage reduction. If the enemy wants to trade with Gragas, they also have to accept the fact that he can all in vs them very easily and out trade people from level 2 onward. He can get bullied in lane for sure, generally by smart enemies who abuse their ranged autos very early, but the only real way to ruin his day is to bait out his E offensively, then have your jungler pop out and make it impossible for him to escape / do more damage than he's about to take.