Graves with Lux
How to Synergize Graves and Lux
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Graves Lux Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Lux
Tips for Playing as Graves with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Graves Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Graves in LoL
The Graves Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lux helps Graves perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Lux, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Lux provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Lux on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lux.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Lux on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Lux does a poor job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Lux?
There is no top synergy for Graves that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Lux is a very typical teammate for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, she lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.3%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Graves and Lux that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lux has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players should be cautious when arranging Lux allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Graves and Lux together, you will not be granting your other allies much protection for burst damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Lux ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves to pair well with Lux during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Graves and Lux synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Lux than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 50.3% helping carry Lux with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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