Xerath vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Xerath
based on 6,678 Xerath vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Graves
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Xerath in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Xerath versus Graves counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Xerath often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Graves. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xerath and Graves
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Who is Better, Xerath or Graves?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Xerath usually fairs equally well when playing against Graves, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Xerath makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Xerath does have a higher winrate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Xerath also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Xerath into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Xerath has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Graves matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Xerath is a decent counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xerath against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xerath in order to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath on average picks up more CS compared to Graves. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Xerath versus Graves build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Xerath included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Xerath had an average win rate of 50.5% battling Graves with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Graves as Xerath, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Xerath vs Graves face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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