Graves with Elise
How to Synergize Graves and Elise
based on 219 Graves with Elise pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Elise Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Elise
Tips for Playing as Graves with Elise
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 Elise Will Play
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
Graves Elise Synergy Stats
How to Play with Elise as Graves in LoL
The Graves Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Elise helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Elise, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Elise helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Elise on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Elise.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Elise on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Elise does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
Synergies between Graves and Elise
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Is Graves better when played alongside Elise?
There is no perfect companion for Graves that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Elise is a terrible ally for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, she drops their win rate by -4.8% to 45.7%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Graves and Elise that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Elise has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players should be cautious when finding Elise allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Graves players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Graves and Elise together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Elise teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Graves Elise Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to pair well with Elise during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Graves and Elise synergy build include Black Cleaver, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Elise than with most other typical builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 45.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Elise with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing 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 sets players used for Graves and Elise pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Elise with Graves are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.