Graves vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Graves
based on 3,532 Graves vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Amumu
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Graves vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some valuable Graves versus Amumu matchup stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Graves typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Amumu
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Who is Better, Graves or Amumu?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually wins when playing against Amumu, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes a good counter for Amumu.
While Graves does have a higher winrate compared to Amumu, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Amumu.
Furthermore, Graves also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Amumu matchups, Graves is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Graves is a decent counter to Amumu. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually picks up more CS compared to Amumu. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Graves versus Amumu build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Death's Dance, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Amumu than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 51.8% when playing against Amumu with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Amumu as Graves, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Graves vs Amumu face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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