Garen with Graves
How to Synergize Garen and Graves
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Garen Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Graves
Tips for Playing as Garen with Graves
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Garen perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Garen is an ally to Graves, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Graves does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played together with Graves on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Garen plays with Graves on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Garen in team fights.
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Is Garen better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Garen that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Garen. By playing on the same team as Garen, he improves their win rate by 0.8% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Garen and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Garen. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Garen players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Garen and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen 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 master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Garen and Graves synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Garen players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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