Tristana vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Tristana
based on 4,941 Tristana vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Graves Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Graves as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Graves
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Tristana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some significant Tristana vs. Graves counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Tristana typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Tristana or Graves?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when facing off against Graves, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when they face off with one another, Tristana also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Tristana into Graves.
Additionally, Tristana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana 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 allies during teamfights.
Tristana is a bad counter to Graves. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana in order to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana typically racks up much more CS relative to Graves. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Tristana versus Graves build include Bloodthirster, Rapid Firecannon, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 48.0% battling Graves with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Graves as Tristana, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Tristana vs Graves matchups, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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