Graves with Neeko
How to Synergize Graves and Neeko
based on 4,526 Graves with Neeko pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Neeko Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Neeko Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Graves with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Graves Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Graves in LoL
The Graves Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Neeko helps Graves perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Neeko, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Neeko does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Neeko on the same team, 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 Neeko.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Neeko on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Neeko does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Neeko is a very typical companion for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, she raises their win rate by 0.2% to 50.7%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Graves and Neeko that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Neeko has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players must be cautious when lining up Neeko teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Graves players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Neeko together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Neeko ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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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 Neeko during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Graves and Neeko synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Neeko than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Neeko with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing 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 combinations we have analyed for Graves and Neeko pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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