Graves with Hecarim
How to Synergize Graves and Hecarim
based on 252 Graves with Hecarim pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Graves with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Graves Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Graves in LoL
The Graves Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Graves perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Hecarim, he gets a clear improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Hecarim supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Hecarim.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Hecarim on the same team, he usually takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Hecarim does a decent job of protecting Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no top synergy for Graves that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, overall, Hecarim is a terrible ally for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -7.2% to 43.3%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Graves and Hecarim that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Hecarim has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be careful when arranging Hecarim comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, Graves players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Graves and Hecarim together, you may not be providing your team much crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to synergize with Hecarim during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Graves and Hecarim synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Hecarim than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 43.3% when playing alongside Hecarim with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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 players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.3% win rate overall.
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