Katarina vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Katarina
based on 6,100 Katarina vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Graves
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Katarina vs. Graves counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves..
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Graves
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Who is Better, Katarina or Graves?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Graves, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Gravesas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has almost no 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually gets more CS relative to Graves. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Katarina versus Graves build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Graves than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 48.2% battling Graves with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Graves as Katarina, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Katarina vs Graves battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
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