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.
He gains speed while chasing in a straight line, but taking damage makes him lose that momentum.
Try to get inside his orbit, since his stars can't hurt you up close.
His stars disappear while stunned or silenced, giving you an easy opportunity to fight him.
His Starsurge ability can grow to cover a huge area - don't stay in the same place too long!
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some strategic Graves against Aurelion Sol matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aurelion Sol’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Aurelion Sol..
Graves normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than Aurelion Sol. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when playing against Aurelion Sol, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Graves makes an ok counter for Aurelion Sol.
While Graves does have a lower winrate than Aurelion Sol, when facing one another, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Aurelion Sol.
Additionally, Graves also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aurelion Sol. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Aurelion Sol matchups, Aurelion Sol is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter for Aurelion Sol. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Graves against Aurelion Sol.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Aurelion Sol during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Aurelion Sol. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Graves versus Aurelion Sol build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Graves bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Aurelion Sol than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Aurelion Sol with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Aurelion Sol as Graves, Graves players should take 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 sets players picked for Graves vs Aurelion Sol fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% win rate overall.
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