Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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 provided here feature some important Renekton versus Graves counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the two. Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Renekton normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Graves. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Renekton usually loses when trying to fight Graves, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Renekton makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Renekton does have a lower win rate than Graves, when on opposite teams, Renekton also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Renekton into Graves.
Furthermore, Renekton 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 is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Renekton vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Renekton is a garbage counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Renekton against Graves.
If you would like to truly master Renekton 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton most often picks up much more CS compared to Graves. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Renekton versus Graves build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Graves than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Renekton boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Graves with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Graves as Renekton, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Renekton vs Graves counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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