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.
Watch Kled's courage bar when he's off his mount - when it reaches 100%, he will remount and regain a significant amount of health.
Kled is much more threatening when he has Violent Tendencies ready.
Kled generates courage by damaging enemies with his Pocket Pistol and basic attacks, killing minions, and attacking structures or epic monsters.
The stats shown here emphasize several significant Graves against Kled matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kled’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kled..
Graves typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kled. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Graves usually loses when facing off against Kled, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes a poor counter to Kled.
While Graves does have a lower win rate than Kled, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Kled.
Moreover, Graves has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kled. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Kled matchups, Kled is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter to Kled. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Kled.
If you would like to truly master Graves to counter Kled during both the early game 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 listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually accumulates a lot less CS as Kled. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Graves versus Kled build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Kled than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 48.1% battling Kled with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Kled 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 that we analyzed for Graves vs Kled matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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