Graves vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Graves
based on 1,663 Graves vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Graves vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several critical Graves against Cassiopeia counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Cassiopeia..
Graves usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Cassiopeia. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Graves or Cassiopeia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes an ok counter to Cassiopeia.
While Graves does have a lower win rate than Cassiopeia, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Graves into Cassiopeia.
Moreover, Graves also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter to Cassiopeia. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Graves against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Cassiopeia 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves typically gets a lot less CS relative to Cassiopeia. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Graves versus Cassiopeia build consist of Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Cassiopeia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Cassiopeia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Cassiopeia as Graves, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Graves vs Cassiopeia counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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