Talk:Gragas/@comment-94.78.117.132-20120307173721/@comment-74.240.228.117-20120307220347

Not really. Lich's Bane is a heavily situational item and Gragas is best for his burst, using bodyslam only when necessary or as a combo to his ult, and otherwise when running away, With this build you can't utilize Lich's Bane as much as you want because you're not tanky enough to stay in the thick of things with only a RoA, Though I've seen some Gragas players start AP burst and then go tanky later, that will make this good and Lich's Bane is by no means bad, it's just not as good as some other choices. WoTA is good on him, but not as good as it could be and to make it a choice over other items, because all of his spells are AoE and because of his massive range and ult which can seperate one person, you're not going to rely on it, best leave this item to your support or tanky mage unless their team is good at poking out of teamfights, then go for it. As for the boots of lucidity, I heavily disagree with it, for Gragas you're going to want to keep bluebuff on you as much as possible, if I'm unable to do this I'll buy a Morrello's tome, you should be using the CDR masteries and that will get you down to about 30% CDR, Which is good enough to bridge the gap between blue buffs, the 10% is not worth another item. Rabidans is a must on him, and the void staff is something Gragas really wants to look into to increase his burst and poke from behind lines. The reason I don't think the build is good altogether, It looks like half AP carry and half AP tank, which just doesn't work unless you're hella farmed, you're going to want to be one or the other.

I reccomend stacking 3 dorans, boots, sorcs., then getting your rabidans immediately, After this get the Morello's tome (for beginniers, otherwise grab your choice of DFG, Abyssal, or Zhonya's for their team comp), then buy a Void Staff, Rylai's, and another situational item, like GA, Zhonya's/Abyssal, QSS, WoTA, Lich's Bane,

As you can see my builds is highly situational and I change varying on the team, don't take my advise as 100% true, there's many play-styles of Gragas and I'm only one of them, but I hope this helped.