Graves vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Graves
based on 4,827 Graves vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Graves vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Graves in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some significant Graves against Janna matchup statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Janna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Graves typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Janna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Janna
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Who is Better, Graves or Janna?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when taking on Janna, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Graves makes an ok counter for Janna.
While Graves does have a higher winrate than Janna, when facing one another, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Graves into Janna.
Additionally, Graves has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Janna matchups, Graves is the better champ 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 decent counter for Janna. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves often gets more CS relative to Janna. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Graves versus Janna build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Janna than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 50.4% battling Janna with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Janna as Graves, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Graves vs Janna face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.4% winrate overall.
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