Graves vs Viego
How to Beat Viego as Graves
based on 7,092 Graves vs Viego matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Viego Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Viego as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Viego
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.
Graves vs Viego Counter Stats
How to Counter Viego with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some vital Graves versus Viego counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Viego’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Viego..
Graves typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Viego. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Viego
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Who is Better, Graves or Viego?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when facing off against Viego, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Graves makes an ok counter for Viego.
While Graves does have a lower winrate compared to Viego, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Graves into Viego.
Furthermore, Graves has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viego. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Viego matchups, Viego is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter to Viego. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Graves against Viego.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Viego during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves typically gets more CS as Viego. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Graves versus Viego build include Guardian Angel, Black Cleaver, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Viego than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 49.3% battling Viego with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Viego as Graves, Graves players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Graves vs Viego matchups, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Viego as Graves are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.