Lissandra vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Lissandra
based on 2,135 Lissandra vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Graves
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Lissandra in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some important Lissandra vs. Graves counter stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Lissandra usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes less damage than Graves. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Graves
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when trying to fight Graves, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Lissandra makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Lissandra does have a lower win rate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Lissandra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lissandra into Graves.
Moreover, Lissandra has a good amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Lissandra is a terribly counter for Graves. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lissandra to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra usually picks up much more CS as Graves. Champs who on average don't take much CS 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Lissandra versus Graves build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Graves than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Graves with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Graves as Lissandra, Lissandra players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Lissandra vs Graves counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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