Graves vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Graves
based on 2,194 Graves vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Graves vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Graves against Taliyah counter statistics that may help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taliyah..
Graves typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Graves or Taliyah?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when taking on Taliyah, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Graves makes an ok counter for Taliyah.
While Graves does have a higher win rate than Taliyah, when facing one another, Graves also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Taliyah.
Moreover, Graves also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Taliyah matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Graves is a decent counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Graves against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves most often picks up less CS compared to Taliyah. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Graves versus Taliyah build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Taliyah than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.2% battling Taliyah with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Taliyah 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. Out of all the runes players chose for Graves vs Taliyah counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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