Graves with K'Sante
How to Synergize Graves and K'Sante
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Graves K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Graves with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Graves K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Graves in LoL
The Graves K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that K'Sante helps Graves perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with K'Sante, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that K'Sante supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without K'Sante. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with K'Sante.
Additionally, when Graves plays with K'Sante on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that K'Sante does a decent job of protecting Graves during team fights.
Synergies between Graves and K'Sante
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Is Graves better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no top ally for Graves that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, K'Sante is a relatively poor ally for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, they decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 48.1%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Graves and K'Sante that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
K'Sante has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players must be careful when enlisting K'Sante allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and K'Sante together, you may not be providing your team enough crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your K'Sante ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing 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
If you would like to truly master Graves to work well with K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Graves and K'Sante synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with K'Sante than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside K'Sante with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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 that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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