Graves with Irelia
How to Synergize Graves and Irelia
based on 3,970 Graves with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Graves with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Graves Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Graves in LoL
The Graves Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Irelia helps Graves perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Irelia, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Irelia does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Irelia on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Graves that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Irelia is a relatively poor teammate for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, she drops their win rate by -1.7% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Graves and Irelia that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Irelia has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Irelia comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Graves and Irelia together, you may not be providing your team very much utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to pair well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Graves and Irelia synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Irelia than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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