Ezreal vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Ezreal
based on 9,906 Ezreal vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Graves
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Ezreal in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several significant Ezreal vs. Graves counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Ezreal typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ezreal and Graves
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Graves?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ezreal usually loses when playing against Graves, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Ezreal makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Ezreal does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when they face off with one another, Ezreal also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ezreal into Gravesas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ezreal also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ezreal 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Ezreal is a bad counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ezreal against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ezreal in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal most often accumulates much more CS compared to Graves. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ezreal versus Graves build consist of Muramana, Trinity Force, and Hubris. When Ezreal included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ezreal boasted an average win rate of 47.4% battling Graves with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Graves as Ezreal, Ezreal players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Ezreal vs Graves counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.4% winrate overall.
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