Graves with Akali
How to Synergize Graves and Akali
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Graves Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Akali
Tips for Playing as Graves with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Graves Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Graves in LoL
The Graves Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Graves sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Akali helps Graves perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Akali, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Akali helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Akali on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Akali does a poor job of covering Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his top teammate. However, overall, Akali is a very typical teammate for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, she lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 49.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Graves and Akali that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Akali has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you should be cautious when finding Akali teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Graves and Akali together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to pair well with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Graves and Akali synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
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