Lux vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Lux
based on 15,062 Lux vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Graves
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some influential Lux against Graves counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Lux normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Graves
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Who is Better, Lux or Graves?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when facing off against Graves, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Lux makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Lux does have a lower winrate compared to Graves, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Graves.
Furthermore, Lux has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lux vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lux is a somewhat poor counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lux against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lux in order to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually gets more CS relative to Graves. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Lux versus Graves build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Lux combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Graves than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Graves as Lux, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Lux vs Graves LoL games, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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