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 stats shown here show some influential Yuumi vs. Graves counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Yuumi typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when facing off against Graves, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Yuumi makes a poor counter to Graves.
While Yuumi does have a lower winrate than Graves, when facing one another, Yuumi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Yuumi into Graves.
Furthermore, Yuumi has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Yuumi is a terribly counter for Graves. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Yuumi against Graves.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average accumulates a lot less CS as Graves. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Yuumi versus Graves build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Dawncore. When Yuumi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Graves than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yuumi boasted an average winrate of 46.3% when countering Graves with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Graves as Yuumi, Yuumi players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Yuumi vs Graves clashes, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
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