Graves with Gragas
How to Synergize Graves and Gragas
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Graves Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Graves with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Graves Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Graves in LoL
The Graves Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Gragas, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This could indicate that Gragas helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Gragas on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Graves that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Gragas is a good teammate for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, he improves their win rate by 1.6% to 52.1%. This signals that there is a good bond between Graves and Gragas that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Gragas has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be careful when arranging Gragas teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Graves players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Graves and Gragas together, you will not be providing your team enough crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves to pair well with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Graves and Gragas synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Graves used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 52.1% helping carry Gragas with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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