Graves vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Graves
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Graves vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Graves vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Graves vs. Jax counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jax’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jax..
Graves often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Jax. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Jax
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Who is Better, Graves or Jax?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when playing against Jax, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Graves makes an ok counter to Jax.
While Graves does have a higher win rate compared to Jax, when facing one another, Graves also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Jax.
Moreover, Graves also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Jax matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Graves is a decent counter to Jax. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Graves against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Jax during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves typically picks up less CS compared to Jax. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Graves versus Jax build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Jax than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing against Jax with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Jax 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 rune builds players chose for Graves vs Jax clashes, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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