Graves with Garen
How to Synergize Graves and Garen
based on 4,738 Graves with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Garen Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Garen
Tips for Playing as Graves with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Graves Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Graves in LoL
The Graves Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Graves perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Garen, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Garen does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Garen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Garen on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Garen does a poor job of protecting Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Garen?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Graves that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Garen is a very typical teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Graves and Garen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Garen has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you must be careful when arranging Garen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Graves and Garen together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Garen ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to synergize with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Graves and Garen synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Garen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 49.5% helping carry Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Graves players should take 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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