Graves vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Graves
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Graves vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Akali
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Graves vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Graves versus Akali matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Akali..
Graves often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Akali. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Akali
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Who is Better, Graves or Akali?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually wins when playing against Akali, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes a good counter for Akali.
While Graves does have a higher winrate than Akali, when facing one another, Graves also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Graves into Akali.
Moreover, Graves has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Akali matchups, Graves is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Graves is a decent counter for Akali. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Akali. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Graves versus Akali build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Akali than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Akali with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Akali as Graves, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Graves vs Akali counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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