Orianna vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Orianna
based on 2,409 Orianna vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Graves
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several influential Orianna versus Graves counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves..
Orianna usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Graves. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Orianna and Graves
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Who is Better, Orianna or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Orianna usually loses when facing off against Graves, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Orianna makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Orianna does have a lower winrate than Graves, when facing one another, Orianna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Orianna into Gravesas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Orianna has some amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Orianna 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 team members during teamfights.
Orianna is a bad counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Orianna in order to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna typically racks up much more CS compared to Graves. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Orianna versus Graves build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Orianna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Graves with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Graves as Orianna, Orianna players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Orianna vs Graves counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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