Gragas with Graves
How to Synergize Gragas and Graves
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Gragas Graves Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Graves
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Graves
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas 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 fall shows that Graves helps Gragas perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is an ally to Graves, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Graves supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played alongside 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.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Graves on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Gragas in team fights.
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gragas that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Graves is a fantastic companion for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he increases their win rate by 4.2% to 52.1%. This proves that there is a very strong bond between Gragas and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Gragas. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Graves comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Gragas players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Gragas and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your team enough crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas in order to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Gragas and Graves synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Gragas included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Graves than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gragas had an average winrate of 52.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Gragas players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Graves with Gragas are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.