Sylas vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Sylas
based on 5,594 Sylas vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Graves
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Sylas versus Graves matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Sylas often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Graves. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Graves
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Who is Better, Sylas or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when trying to fight Graves, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a bad counter to Graves.
While Sylas does have a lower winrate compared to Graves, when they face off with one another, Sylas also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Sylas into Graves.
Furthermore, Sylas also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Sylas is a trash counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sylas in order to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas most often racks up more CS as Graves. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Sylas versus Graves build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Sylas had an average winrate of 47.1% battling Graves with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Graves as Sylas, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Sylas vs Graves LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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