Graves with Annie
How to Synergize Graves and Annie
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Graves Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Annie
Tips for Playing as Graves with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Graves Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Graves in LoL
The Graves Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Annie helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Annie, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Annie provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Annie 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 synergisticly with Annie.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Annie on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Annie does a poor job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Annie?
There is no perfect synergy for Graves that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Annie is a decent teammate for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, she increases their win rate by 1.3% to 51.8%. This proves that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Graves and Annie that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Annie has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Annie allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Graves players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Annie together, you may not be providing your side very much engage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Annie ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to work well with Annie during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Graves and Annie synergy build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Annie than with many other typical builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when playing alongside Annie with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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