Vladimir vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Vladimir
based on 5,433 Vladimir vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vladimir vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Vladimir vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Vladimir against Graves
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Vladimir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some valuable Vladimir vs. Graves counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Vladimir often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Vladimir or Graves?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually loses when playing against Graves, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Vladimir makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Vladimir does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when facing one another, Vladimir also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vladimir into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vladimir has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vladimir 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 team fights.
Vladimir is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vladimir against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir in order to counter Graves during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir typically racks up much more CS compared to Graves. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Vladimir versus Graves build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 48.8% battling Graves with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Graves as Vladimir, Vladimir players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Triumph, and Last Stand runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Vladimir vs Graves clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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