Irelia vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Irelia
based on 4,562 Irelia vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Graves
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Advice to Win Against Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Irelia vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Irelia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Irelia vs. Graves counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Irelia usually has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Graves. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Irelia and Graves
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Who is Better, Irelia or Graves?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Graves, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Irelia makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Graves.
Moreover, Irelia has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia typically accumulates much more CS relative to Graves. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Irelia versus Graves build include Ravenous Hydra, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Graves than with most other typical builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average win rate of 49.2% battling Graves with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Graves as Irelia, Irelia players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Irelia vs Graves clashes, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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