Graves vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Graves
based on 5,540 Graves vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Graves vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Graves in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some strategic Graves vs. Rakan counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rakan. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Graves normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Rakan. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Graves and Rakan
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Who is Better, Graves or Rakan?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Rakan, with a 49.9% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes an ok counter to Rakan.
While Graves does have a lower win rate than Rakan, when facing one another, Graves also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Graves into Rakan.
Furthermore, Graves also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter to Rakan. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Graves to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves most often racks up more CS relative to Rakan. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Graves versus Rakan build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Rakan than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 49.9% battling Rakan with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Rakan 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Graves vs Rakan clashes, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.
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