Yasuo vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Yasuo
based on 10,991 Yasuo vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Graves
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Yasuo in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some valuable Yasuo against Graves counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. As an example, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Graves..
Yasuo usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Graves
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Graves?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually wins when taking on Graves, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Yasuo makes a good counter to Graves.
While Yasuo does have a higher winrate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Yasuo also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Yasuo into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yasuo also has only a small 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Graves matchups, Yasuo is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Yasuo is a decent counter for Graves. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Yasuo against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Yasuo in order to counter Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo typically racks up much more CS relative to Graves. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Yasuo versus Graves build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Yasuo used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Yasuo had an average win rate of 51.9% when playing against Graves with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Graves as Yasuo, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Yasuo vs Graves counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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