Zeri vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Zeri
based on 1,837 Zeri vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zeri vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Zeri vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Zeri
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.
Zeri vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Zeri in LoL
The stats provided here show several valuable Zeri vs. Graves counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Zeri often has a similar longest kill spree as their counter does. Typically, they takes less damage than Graves. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zeri and Graves
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Who is Better, Zeri or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zeri usually loses when taking on Graves, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Zeri makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Zeri does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when they face off with one another, Zeri also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zeri into Graves.
Furthermore, Zeri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Zeri is a bad counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zeri against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zeri in order to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri most often gets much more CS relative to Graves. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Zeri versus Graves build consist of Bloodthirster, Experimental Hexplate, and Titanic Hydra. When Zeri incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better vs. Graves than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zeri had an average winrate of 46.0% when countering Graves with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Graves as Zeri, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zeri vs Graves counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.0% win rate overall.
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