Zed vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Zed
based on 6,308 Zed vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Graves
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several strategic Zed against Graves matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Zed often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Graves
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Who is Better, Zed or Graves?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Graves, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Zed makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Zed does have a lower win rate than Graves, when facing one another, Zed also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zed into Gravesas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Graves during both the early game 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 mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed on average accumulates more CS relative to Graves. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zed versus Graves build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Zed used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when countering Graves with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Graves as Zed, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed vs Graves clashes, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Graves as Zed are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.