Graves with Katarina
How to Synergize Graves and Katarina
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Graves Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Graves with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Graves Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Graves in LoL
The Graves Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Katarina, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Katarina on the same side, 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 Katarina.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Katarina on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal synergy for Graves that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Katarina is a very typical companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, she raises their win rate by 0.2% to 50.7%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Graves and Katarina that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Katarina has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players need to be very careful when lining up Katarina allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Katarina together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to pair well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Graves and Katarina synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Katarina than with most other typical builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.7% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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