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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several influential Graves against Senna matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Senna’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Senna..
Graves normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Senna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when facing off against Senna, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Graves makes an ok counter for Senna.
While Graves does have a lower winrate than Senna, when facing one another, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Graves into Senna.
Furthermore, Graves has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Senna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Graves vs Senna matchups, Senna is the better champion with a similar 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 for Senna. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Graves against Senna.
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to counter Senna during both the early game 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 suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Senna. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Graves versus Senna build include Guardian Angel, Black Cleaver, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Senna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when countering Senna with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Senna as Graves, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Graves vs Senna counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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