Graves with Aphelios
How to Synergize Graves and Aphelios
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Graves Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Graves with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Graves Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Graves in LoL
The Graves Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Graves perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Aphelios, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Aphelios does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Aphelios. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Aphelios on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Aphelios is a not very good ally for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Graves and Aphelios that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players should be cautious when enlisting Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Graves players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Graves and Aphelios together, you will not be giving your other teammates much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 synergize with Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Graves and Aphelios synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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