Jarvan IV vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Jarvan IV
based on 2,703 Jarvan IV vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jarvan IV vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Jarvan IV vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV against Graves
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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.
Jarvan IV vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Jarvan IV in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some critical Jarvan IV against Graves matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jarvan IV may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Graves. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Jarvan IV often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jarvan IV and Graves
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Who is Better, Jarvan IV or Graves?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Jarvan IV usually loses when playing against Graves, with a 46.7% win rate. Thus, Jarvan IV makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Jarvan IV does have a lower winrate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Jarvan IV also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Jarvan IV into Graves.
Moreover, Jarvan IV also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Jarvan IV vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Jarvan IV is a trash counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Jarvan IV against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jarvan IV to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jarvan IV typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Graves. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Jarvan IV versus Graves build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Graves than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Jarvan IV had an average winrate of 46.7% when playing against Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Graves as Jarvan IV, you should take the Conqueror, 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 used for Jarvan IV vs Graves counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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