Graves with Kindred
How to Synergize Graves and Kindred
based on 311 Graves with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Graves with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Graves Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Graves in LoL
The Graves Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kindred helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Kindred, he sees a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kindred doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Kindred on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kindred. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kindred.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Kindred on the same side, he typically takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Graves that will always be his best synergy. However, overall, Kindred is a relatively poor companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, they drops their win rate by -2.9% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Graves and Kindred that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kindred has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players need to be careful when enlisting Kindred allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Graves and Kindred together, you may not be granting your side enough AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to pair well with Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Graves and Kindred synergy build include Black Cleaver, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Kindred than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 47.6% when playing alongside Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should equip 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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