Graves vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Graves
based on 4,766 Graves vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Graves vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Graves in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Graves vs. Kayle matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between these two champions. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle..
Graves normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kayle. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Kayle
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Who is Better, Graves or Kayle?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when playing against Kayle, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes an ok counter for Kayle.
While Graves does have a lower win rate compared to Kayle, when facing one another, Graves also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Graves into Kayle.
Additionally, Graves also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Kayle matchups, Kayle 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 Kayle. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Graves against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Kayle 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves often accumulates a lot less CS as Kayle. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Graves versus Kayle build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Kayle than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 49.6% when countering Kayle with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Kayle as Graves, Graves players should equip 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 builds players used for Graves vs Kayle matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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