Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Graves versus Tristana counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tristana..
Graves normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Tristana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually loses when trying to fight Tristana, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Graves makes a bad counter for Tristana.
While Graves does have a lower winrate than Tristana, when facing one another, Graves also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Graves into Tristana.
Additionally, Graves has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Tristana matchups, Tristana is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter for Tristana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Tristana.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Tristana during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves most often picks up less CS relative to Tristana. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Graves versus Tristana build consist of Eclipse, Guardian Angel, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Tristana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Tristana as Graves, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Graves vs Tristana clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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