Graves with Nidalee
How to Synergize Graves and Nidalee
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Graves Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Graves with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Graves Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Graves in LoL
The Graves Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Graves perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Nidalee, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Nidalee helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Nidalee 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 synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Nidalee on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
Synergies between Graves and Nidalee
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Is Graves better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no ideal synergy for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Nidalee is a not very good teammate for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, she drops their win rate by -3.0% to 47.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Graves and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you need to be very careful when finding Nidalee teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Graves players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Graves and Nidalee together, you may not be giving your other allies enough crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to pair well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to include in your Graves and Nidalee synergy build include Black Cleaver, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing alongside Nidalee with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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