Graves vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Graves
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Graves vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Graves vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Graves against Malzahar matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malzahar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Graves normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Graves or Malzahar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when facing off against Malzahar, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Graves makes an ok counter to Malzahar.
While Graves does have a higher winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Graves also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Graves into Malzahar.
Moreover, Graves has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. 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 in League of Legends, in Graves vs Malzahar matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Graves is a decent counter to Malzahar. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves most often racks up a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Graves versus Malzahar build include Guardian Angel, Black Cleaver, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when facing Malzahar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Malzahar with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Malzahar as Graves, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Graves vs Malzahar fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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