Graves vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Graves
based on 3,910 Graves vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Graves vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Graves against Nunu & Willump counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nunu & Willump..
Graves normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Graves or Nunu & Willump?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually wins when facing off against Nunu & Willump, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Graves makes a good counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Graves does have a higher win rate than Nunu & Willump, when facing one another, Graves also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Graves into Nunu & Willump.
Furthermore, Graves has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Graves is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Graves is a decent counter to Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Graves against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Nunu & Willump during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves on average gets more CS relative to Nunu & Willump. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Graves versus Nunu & Willump build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 51.5% battling Nunu & Willump with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Nunu & Willump as Graves, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Graves vs Nunu & Willump face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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