Graves vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Graves
based on 1,566 Graves vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Graves vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several vital Graves vs. Kalista matchup stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Graves typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Kalista
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Who is Better, Graves or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Graves usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes a good counter to Kalista.
While Graves does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Graves into Kalista.
Furthermore, Graves also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Kalista matchups, Graves is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Graves is an above average counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Graves versus Kalista build include Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Kalista than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 52.4% when playing against Kalista with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Kalista as Graves, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Graves vs Kalista clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
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