Graves vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Graves
based on 10,038 Graves vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Graves vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Graves in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Graves against Brand matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the two. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Graves normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Brand. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Brand
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Who is Better, Graves or Brand?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when playing against Brand, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Graves makes an ok counter for Brand.
While Graves does have a lower winrate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Brand.
Additionally, Graves has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Graves to counter Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves often gets a similar amount of CS as Brand. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Graves versus Brand build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Brand than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Brand with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Brand 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Graves vs Brand face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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