Graves with Illaoi
How to Synergize Graves and Illaoi
based on 2,601 Graves with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Graves with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Graves Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Graves in LoL
The Graves Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Illaoi helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Illaoi, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Illaoi doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Illaoi.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Illaoi on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Illaoi does a poor job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
Synergies between Graves and Illaoi
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Is Graves better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no ideal companion for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Illaoi is a very typical companion for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, she decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 50.2%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Graves and Illaoi that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Illaoi has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be careful when finding Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Graves and Illaoi together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much support. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Illaoi teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to work well with Illaoi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Graves and Illaoi synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Illaoi than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use 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 chose for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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