Graves vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Graves
based on 5,729 Graves vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Graves vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Graves in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some vital Graves versus Leona counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Leona. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Graves usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Leona
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Who is Better, Graves or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when playing against Leona, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Graves makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Graves does have a lower winrate than Leona, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Leona.
Moreover, Graves also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Graves against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Leona during both the lane 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 stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves often accumulates more CS relative to Leona. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Graves versus Leona build include Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Leona than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 49.2% battling Leona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Leona as Graves, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Graves vs Leona LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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