Graves with Leona
How to Synergize Graves and Leona
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Graves Leona Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Leona
Tips for Playing as Graves with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Graves Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Graves in LoL
The Graves Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Graves perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Leona, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Leona supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Leona on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Leona does a decent job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Leona?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Leona is a decent ally for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, she increases their win rate by 1.7% to 52.2%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Graves and Leona that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Leona has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Leona allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Graves and Leona together, you may not be granting your side enough AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to pair well with Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Graves and Leona synergy build include Bloodthirster, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Leona than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 52.2% helping carry Leona with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Graves players should use 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 builds players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.2% winrate overall.
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