Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some influential Ornn against Graves matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Ornn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ornn may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Ornn normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ornn usually fairs equally well when playing against Graves, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Ornn makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Ornn does have a higher winrate than Graves, when facing one another, Ornn also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Ornn into Graves.
Furthermore, Ornn also has a good 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 is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ornn vs Graves matchups, Ornn is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ornn is a decent counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ornn against Graves.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ornn 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ornn typically picks up much more CS relative to Graves. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Ornn versus Graves build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Frozen Heart, and The Unspoken Parasite. When Ornn combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ornn had an average win rate of 50.5% when playing against Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Graves as Ornn, Ornn players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Ornn vs Graves face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Graves as Ornn are shown for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.