Caitlyn vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Caitlyn
based on 16,125 Caitlyn vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Graves
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Caitlyn in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some important Caitlyn vs. Graves matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Caitlyn often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Caitlyn and Graves
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Graves?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually fairs equally well when playing against Graves, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Caitlyn makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Caitlyn does have a lower winrate compared to Graves, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Caitlyn into Graves.
Furthermore, Caitlyn has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Caitlyn is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Caitlyn against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn usually racks up much more CS as Graves. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Caitlyn versus Graves build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and The Collector. When Caitlyn bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Graves than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when countering Graves with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Graves as Caitlyn, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Caitlyn vs Graves matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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