Graves with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Graves and Lee Sin
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Graves Lee Sin Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Graves with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Graves Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Graves in LoL
The Graves Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lee Sin helps Graves perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Lee Sin, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Lee Sin supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Lee Sin 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 with Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Lee Sin on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Lee Sin is a very bad teammate for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -5.4% to 45.1%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Graves and Lee Sin that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Lee Sin has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you must be very careful when arranging Lee Sin comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Graves and Lee Sin together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to synergize with Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Graves and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Lee Sin than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when playing alongside Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.1% winrate overall.
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