You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
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 Aurelion Sol 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, Aurelion Sol sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Aurelion Sol perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aurelion Sol is paired with Graves, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Graves does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Aurelion Sol is played with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Additionally, when Aurelion Sol plays with Graves on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Aurelion Sol in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Aurelion Sol that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Graves is a very typical ally for Aurelion Sol. By being on the same side as Aurelion Sol, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Aurelion Sol and Graves that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Aurelion Sol. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Graves comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Aurelion Sol players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Aurelion Sol and Graves together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Aurelion Sol in order to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Aurelion Sol and Graves synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Aurelion Sol included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Aurelion Sol had an average winrate of 50.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Aurelion Sol and Graves pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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