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.
The Graves Fiddlesticks synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Fiddlesticks, 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 Fiddlesticks. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Fiddlesticks helps Graves perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Fiddlesticks, he observes a clear improvement in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Fiddlesticks supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Fiddlesticks on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Fiddlesticks. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Fiddlesticks.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Fiddlesticks on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Fiddlesticks does a decent job of protecting Graves in team fights.
There is no one best companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Fiddlesticks is a pretty good teammate for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he increases their win rate by 2.4% to 52.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Graves and Fiddlesticks that results in them performing better together than alone.
Fiddlesticks has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players need to be cautious when finding Fiddlesticks teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Graves and Fiddlesticks together, you will not be providing your team enough engage potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Fiddlesticks teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Graves to pair well with Fiddlesticks during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Graves and Fiddlesticks synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Fiddlesticks than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when playing alongside Fiddlesticks with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Graves players should equip 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 chose for Graves and Fiddlesticks pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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