Graves with Brand
How to Synergize Graves and Brand
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Graves Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Brand
Tips for Playing as Graves with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Graves Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Graves in LoL
The Graves Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Graves perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Brand, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Brand supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Brand 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 alongside Brand.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Brand on the same team, he usually receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Brand does a poor job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Brand?
There is no one best ally for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Brand is a very typical companion for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 50.7%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Graves and Brand that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Brand has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Brand teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Graves and Brand together, you probably will not be providing your team enough engage. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to work well with Brand during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Graves and Brand synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Brand than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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