Kai'Sa vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Kai'Sa
based on 7,113 Kai'Sa vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Graves
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Kai'Sa versus Graves counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Kai'Sa usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Graves
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Graves?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Graves, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower win rate compared to Graves, when on opposite teams, Kai'Sa also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Graves.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Kai'Sa is a terribly counter to Graves. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa 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 increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often picks up much more CS as Graves. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Kai'Sa versus Graves build consist of Terminus, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Kai'Sa used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 45.3% when countering Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Graves as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Kai'Sa vs Graves battles, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.3% win rate overall.
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