Kassadin vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Kassadin
based on 2,374 Kassadin vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kassadin vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Graves
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some strategic Kassadin against Graves counter statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Kassadin often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kassadin and Graves
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Graves?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kassadin usually loses when taking on Graves, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Kassadin makes a bad counter to Graves.
While Kassadin does have a lower winrate than Graves, when facing one another, Kassadin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Kassadin into Gravesas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kassadin has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kassadin is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kassadin against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kassadin in order to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin on average gets much more CS as Graves. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kassadin versus Graves build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Malignance. When Kassadin combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Graves than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing against Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Graves as Kassadin, Kassadin players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Kassadin vs Graves face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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