Graves with LeBlanc
How to Synergize Graves and LeBlanc
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Graves LeBlanc Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs LeBlanc Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as Graves with LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc Will Play
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
Graves LeBlanc Synergy Stats
How to Play with LeBlanc as Graves in LoL
The Graves LeBlanc synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with LeBlanc, 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 LeBlanc. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that LeBlanc helps Graves perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with LeBlanc, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that LeBlanc helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with LeBlanc on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside LeBlanc.
Additionally, when Graves plays with LeBlanc on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that LeBlanc does a poor job of protecting Graves during team fights.
Synergies between Graves and LeBlanc
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Is Graves better when played alongside LeBlanc?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, LeBlanc is a relatively poor teammate for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, she drops their win rate by -2.9% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Graves and LeBlanc that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
LeBlanc has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you need to be very careful when arranging LeBlanc allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and LeBlanc together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your LeBlanc teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves to pair well with LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Graves and LeBlanc synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of LeBlanc than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 47.6% helping carry LeBlanc with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Graves players should equip 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 sets we have analyed for Graves and LeBlanc pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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