Graves vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Graves
based on 1,377 Graves vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Graves vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some significant Graves vs. Elise counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Elise..
Graves typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Elise
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Who is Better, Graves or Elise?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually wins when facing off against Elise, with a 53.3% win rate. As a result, Graves makes a great counter for Elise.
While Graves does have a higher win rate than Elise, when facing one another, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Graves into Elise.
Additionally, Graves has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Elise matchups, Graves is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Graves is a great counter for Elise. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Graves to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves typically racks up more CS as Elise. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Graves versus Elise build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Elise than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when countering Elise with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Elise as Graves, Graves players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Graves vs Elise clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.3% winrate overall.
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