Alistar vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Alistar
based on 3,026 Alistar vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Graves
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Alistar vs. Graves matchup statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Graves
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Who is Better, Alistar or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Graves, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Graves, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average racks up less CS relative to Graves. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Alistar versus Graves build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.5% battling Graves with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Graves as Alistar, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Alistar vs Graves LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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