Graves vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Graves
based on 3,373 Graves vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Graves vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Graves in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Graves against Vel'Koz counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between these two champs. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vel'Koz’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz..
Graves normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Vel'Koz. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Graves or Vel'Koz?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when taking on Vel'Koz, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Graves makes an ok counter for Vel'Koz.
While Graves does have a higher win rate than Vel'Koz, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Vel'Koz.
Furthermore, Graves has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Vel'Koz matchups, Vel'Koz is the better champion 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 decent counter to Vel'Koz. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Graves against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Vel'Koz during both the lane 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually accumulates less CS as Vel'Koz. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Graves versus Vel'Koz build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 50.0% battling Vel'Koz with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Vel'Koz 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Graves vs Vel'Koz fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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