Graves vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Graves
based on 2,135 Graves vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Graves vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several valuable Graves vs. Lissandra matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lissandra..
Graves normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Lissandra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Graves or Lissandra?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Graves usually wins when facing off against Lissandra, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Graves makes a good counter to Lissandra.
While Graves does have a higher winrate compared to Lissandra, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Graves into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Graves has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing 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 Lissandra 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 team members during teamfights.
Graves is a good counter for Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Graves against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Lissandra. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Graves versus Lissandra build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Lissandra than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 52.2% when countering Lissandra with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Lissandra as Graves, Graves players should equip 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 runes players chose for Graves vs Lissandra counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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