„Nebelwand“ kann sowohl zur Flucht als auch zur Vorbereitung eines Kills eingesetzt werden.
„Schnelles Ziehen“ kann genutzt werden, um in Reichweite für seine normalen Angriffe und „Endstation“ zu kommen.
Xeraths Reichweite kann einschüchternd sein, aber ist man erst einmal an ihm dran, können ihm die meisten Champions leicht das Wasser reichen.
Schleier der Todesfee kann es für Xerath wesentlich schwerer machen, Schockkugel auf dich abzufeuern.
Xerath braucht lange, um Arkanes Ritual nutzen zu können. Achte auf seine Zauberanimationen und beginne rechtzeitig mit dem Ausweichen.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Graves versus Xerath matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Xerath..
Graves typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Xerath. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually fairs equally well when taking on Xerath, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Graves makes an ok counter for Xerath.
While Graves does have a lower winrate than Xerath, when facing one another, Graves also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Graves into Xerath.
Furthermore, Graves also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Graves is a somewhat poor counter to Xerath. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Graves against Xerath.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves on average racks up less CS as Xerath. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Graves versus Xerath build include Youmus Geistklinge, Schlund von Malmortius, and Voltaisches Zykloschwert. When Graves incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Xerath than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 49.5% battling Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Xerath as Graves, you should use the Leichtfüßigkeit, Triumph, Legende: Eifer, Gnadenstoß, Kosmische Einsicht, and Magisches Schuhwerk runes from the Präzision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Graves vs Xerath matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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