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.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
The stats shown on this page highlight some influential Graves versus Lee Sin counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lee Sin..
Graves often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Graves usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 53.3% win rate. Thus, Graves makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Graves does have a higher winrate than Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Graves into Lee Sin.
Moreover, Graves has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Lee Sin matchups, Graves is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Graves is a great counter for Lee Sin. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Lee Sin.
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to counter Lee Sin during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves on average accumulates more CS as Lee Sin. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Graves versus Lee Sin build include Bloodthirster, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Lee Sin than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 53.3% when countering Lee Sin with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Lee Sin as Graves, Graves players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Graves vs Lee Sin counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.3% win rate overall.
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