Akshan vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Akshan
based on 3,214 Akshan vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Graves
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Akshan against Graves matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between these two champs. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Akshan usually has a similar longest kill spree as their matchup does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Graves
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Who is Better, Akshan or Graves?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akshan usually loses when facing off against Graves, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Akshan does have a lower winrate compared to Graves, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Akshan into Graves.
Additionally, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter for Graves. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Akshan against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan typically accumulates much more CS relative to Graves. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require 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, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Akshan versus Graves build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better vs. Graves than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 48.4% when playing against Graves with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Graves as Akshan, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Akshan vs Graves battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% winrate overall.
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