Graves vs Galio
How to Beat Galio as Graves
based on 4,341 Graves vs Galio matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Galio Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Galio Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Galio as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Galio
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 Galio
Galio cannot traverse walls with Justice Punch.
Galio moves slower when he is charging Shield of Durand.
Hero's Entrance can be interrupted before Galio jumps into the air.
Graves vs Galio Counter Stats
How to Counter Galio with Graves in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Graves versus Galio matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Galio’s ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Galio..
Graves typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Galio. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Galio
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Who is Better, Graves or Galio?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Graves usually wins when facing off against Galio, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes a good counter to Galio.
While Graves does have a higher winrate compared to Galio, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Graves into Galio.
Moreover, Graves has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Galio. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Galio 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 teammates during teamfights.
Graves is an above average counter to Galio. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Graves against Galio.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Galio during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually racks up less CS relative to Galio. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Graves versus Galio build include Black Cleaver, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Galio than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 52.3% when countering Galio with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Galio as Graves, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Graves vs Galio fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Galio as Graves are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.