Vel'Koz vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Vel'Koz
based on 3,373 Vel'Koz vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Graves
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Vel'Koz versus Graves matchup statistics that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves..
Vel'Koz often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Graves
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Graves?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually fairs equally well when playing against Graves, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Vel'Koz makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Vel'Koz does have a higher winrate compared to Graves, when they face off with one another, Vel'Koz also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Gravesas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vel'Koz has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz 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 teammates during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a decent counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Vel'Koz against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often picks up more CS relative to Graves. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Graves build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Vel'Koz combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Graves than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Graves as Vel'Koz, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vel'Koz vs Graves fights, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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