Thresh vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Thresh
based on 6,920 Thresh vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Graves Counter Build
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Core Thresh Items
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Guide to Countering Graves as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Graves
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Thresh against Graves matchup statistics that can help us interpret the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Graves. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Thresh and Graves
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Who is Better, Thresh or Graves?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when playing against Graves, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Thresh makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Graves, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Thresh has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Thresh 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.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Thresh against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh in order to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh most often gets less CS as Graves. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Thresh versus Graves build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Graves than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Graves with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Graves as Thresh, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Thresh vs Graves matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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