Graves vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Graves
based on 2,695 Graves vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Graves vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Graves against Illaoi counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Illaoi..
Graves typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Graves or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually wins when taking on Illaoi, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Graves makes a good counter for Illaoi.
While Graves does have a higher win rate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Graves into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Graves has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Illaoi matchups, Graves is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Graves is a decent counter to Illaoi. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Illaoi during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves typically gets a lot less CS relative to Illaoi. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Graves versus Illaoi build consist of Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Illaoi than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 51.4% when playing against Illaoi with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Illaoi as Graves, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Graves vs Illaoi counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.4% win rate overall.
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