Graves vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Graves
based on 3,636 Graves vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Graves vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some influential Graves against Kindred matchup stats that may help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kindred..
Graves typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kindred. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Kindred
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Who is Better, Graves or Kindred?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when taking on Kindred, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Graves makes an ok counter for Kindred.
While Graves does have a higher winrate than Kindred, when facing one another, Graves also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Kindred.
Furthermore, Graves also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Kindred matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Graves is a decent counter to Kindred. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Graves against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Graves in order to counter Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Kindred. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Graves versus Kindred build consist of Black Cleaver, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Kindred than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 50.9% when playing against Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Kindred as Graves, Graves players should take 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 sets we have analyed for Graves vs Kindred matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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