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 stat comparisons shown here underscore some important Rell against Graves matchup statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the two. As an example, Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Rell normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Rell usually fairs equally well when facing off against Graves, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Rell does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Rell into Graves.
Furthermore, Rell also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Rell is a somewhat poor counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Rell against Graves.
If you would like to truly master Rell to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell often racks up less CS compared to Graves. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rell versus Graves build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Graves as Rell, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Rell vs Graves counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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