Azir vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Azir
based on 3,125 Azir vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Graves
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Azir in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several vital Azir vs. Graves matchup statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Azir often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Graves
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Who is Better, Azir or Graves?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when facing off against Graves, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Azir makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Azir does have a higher win rate than Graves, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Graves matchups, Azir is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Azir is a decent counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Azir against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir in order to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often gets much more CS relative to Graves. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Azir versus Graves build consist of Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 50.5% battling Graves with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Graves as Azir, Azir players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Azir vs Graves face-offs, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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