Graves with Gangplank
How to Synergize Graves and Gangplank
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Graves Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Graves with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Graves Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Graves in LoL
The Graves Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gangplank helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Gangplank, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Gangplank doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Gangplank on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best companion for Graves that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a below average ally for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 47.5%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Graves and Gangplank that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you should be very careful when finding Gangplank comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Graves and Gangplank together, you may not be giving your team much support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to work well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Graves and Gangplank synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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