Galio with Graves
How to Synergize Galio and Graves
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Galio Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Galio and Graves
Tips for Playing as Galio with Graves
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Galio in LoL
The Galio 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, Galio sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Galio perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Galio is an ally to Graves, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Graves does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Galio is played together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Moreover, when Galio plays with Graves on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Galio in teamfights.
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Is Galio better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal companion for Galio that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Graves is a very typical ally for Galio. By playing on the same side as Galio, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 50.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Galio and Graves that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Galio. That means Galio players don't need to be careful when enlisting Graves teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Galio and Graves together, you will not be granting your team enough crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Galio in order to synergize with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Galio and Graves synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Galio used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Graves than with most other typical builds. In fact, Galio boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Galio players should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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