Graves with Alistar
How to Synergize Graves and Alistar
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Graves Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Graves with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Graves Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Graves in LoL
The Graves Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Graves perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Alistar, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Alistar on the same side, 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 with Alistar.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Alistar on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top companion for Graves that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Alistar is a very typical companion for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 50.0%. This demonstrates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Graves and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you should be cautious when finding Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Alistar together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Graves and Alistar synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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