Graves with Orianna
How to Synergize Graves and Orianna
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Graves Orianna Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Graves with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Graves Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Graves in LoL
The Graves Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Orianna helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Orianna, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Orianna helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Orianna on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Orianna does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no one best champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Orianna is a not very good companion for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, she drops their win rate by -2.6% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Graves and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Orianna has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players should be very careful when finding Orianna teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, Graves players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Orianna together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 synergize with Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Graves and Orianna synergy build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Orianna than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you 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 players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Orianna with Graves are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.