Hecarim vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Hecarim
based on 4,715 Hecarim vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Graves
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Advice to Win Against Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Hecarim vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Hecarim in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Hecarim vs. Graves matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Hecarim normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Graves. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hecarim and Graves
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Graves?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when playing against Graves, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a bad counter for Graves.
While Hecarim does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Hecarim into Graves.
Additionally, Hecarim also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Hecarim is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Hecarim to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim typically accumulates less CS compared to Graves. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Hecarim versus Graves build consist of Spear of Shojin, Eclipse, and Profane Hydra. When Hecarim combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Graves as Hecarim, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Hecarim vs Graves clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
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