Caitlyn with Graves
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Graves
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Caitlyn Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Graves
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Graves
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Graves Will Play
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.
Caitlyn Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Caitlyn perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn tries to synergize with Graves, she gets a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Graves doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Graves.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Graves on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Caitlyn during teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By being on the same side as Caitlyn, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Caitlyn and Graves that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Graves allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Caitlyn players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Caitlyn and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Caitlyn in order to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Caitlyn and Graves synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Caitlyn combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Graves with Caitlyn are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.