Azir vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Azir
based on 801 Azir vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Graves
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Be a bird!
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
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.
Azir vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some influential Azir against Graves counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the two. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves..
Azir normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Graves
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Who is Better, Azir or Graves?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when taking on Graves, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Azir does have a lower winrate than Graves, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Gravesas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Azir to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir usually accumulates more CS as Graves. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Azir versus Graves build consist of Liandry's Anguish, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Graves than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Graves with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Graves as Azir, Azir players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Azir vs Graves counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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