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.
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
The Graves Jayce synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jayce, 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 Jayce. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jayce helps Graves perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Jayce, he gets a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Jayce does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Jayce 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 synergisticly with Jayce.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Jayce on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Jayce does a decent job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Graves that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Jayce is a not very good ally for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 48.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Graves and Jayce that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Jayce has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players should be careful when finding Jayce comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Graves players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Graves and Jayce together, you probably will not be granting your team enough support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Jayce teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Graves to work well with Jayce during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Graves and Jayce synergy build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Jayce than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jayce with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.2% win rate overall.
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