Ahri vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Ahri
based on 4,621 Ahri vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Graves
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Advice to Win Against Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Ahri vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several influential Ahri versus Graves matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Ahri typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Graves. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Graves
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Who is Better, Ahri or Graves?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when playing against Graves, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Graves.
Additionally, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a garbage counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often racks up much more CS compared to Graves. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Ahri versus Graves build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Graves than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Graves with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Graves as Ahri, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Graves counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.2% winrate overall.
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