Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
The Aatrox Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Aatrox perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox tries to synergize with Graves, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Graves doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Aatrox plays with Graves on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Aatrox during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Aatrox that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Aatrox. By locking into the same team as Aatrox, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 50.9%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Aatrox and Graves that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Graves allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Aatrox and Graves together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Aatrox in order to synergize with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Aatrox and Graves synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Aatrox bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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