Kayle vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Kayle
based on 4,766 Kayle vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Graves
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Kayle in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several strategic Kayle versus Graves matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Kayle usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Graves
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Who is Better, Kayle or Graves?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually fairs equally well when facing off against Graves, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Kayle does have a higher winrate compared to Graves, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayle into Gravesas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Kayle vs Graves matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a decent counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayle to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle on average picks up much more CS compared to Graves. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kayle versus Graves build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kayle bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Graves as Kayle, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Kayle vs Graves LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.4% win rate overall.
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