Graves vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as Graves
based on 10,991 Graves vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Yasuo as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Yasuo
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 Yasuo
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
Graves vs Yasuo Counter Stats
How to Counter Yasuo with Graves in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several significant Graves versus Yasuo counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yasuo’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Yasuo..
Graves usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Yasuo. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Yasuo
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Who is Better, Graves or Yasuo?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Graves usually loses when taking on Yasuo, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Graves makes a poor counter to Yasuo.
While Graves does have a lower winrate than Yasuo, when they face off with one another, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Yasuo.
Additionally, Graves has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yasuo. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Graves vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter to Yasuo. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Graves against Yasuo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to counter Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves often racks up a lot less CS relative to Yasuo. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Graves versus Yasuo build include Bloodthirster, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Yasuo than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Yasuo with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Yasuo as Graves, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Graves vs Yasuo matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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