Kindred vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Kindred
based on 3,636 Kindred vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Graves
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Kindred vs. Graves matchup statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Kindred usually has a similar longest killing spree as their opponent does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Graves. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and Graves
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Who is Better, Kindred or Graves?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kindred usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Graves, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Kindred makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Kindred does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when on opposite teams, Kindred also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kindred into Graves.
Moreover, Kindred has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kindred is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kindred against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Graves 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Graves. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kindred versus Graves build include Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred included at least these three items in their build, they performed significantly better when fighting Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Kindred boasted an average winrate of 49.1% when countering Graves with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Graves as Kindred, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Kindred vs Graves matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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