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.
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
The Graves Pantheon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Pantheon, 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 Pantheon. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Pantheon helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Pantheon, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Pantheon does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Pantheon 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 alongside Pantheon.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Pantheon on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Pantheon does a decent job of protecting Graves in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Pantheon is a very typical companion for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he drops their win rate by -0.6% to 49.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Graves and Pantheon that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Pantheon has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be careful when lining up Pantheon comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Graves players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Graves and Pantheon together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Pantheon ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Graves in order to synergize with Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Graves and Pantheon synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Pantheon than with many other typical builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Pantheon with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing 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 that we analyzed for Graves and Pantheon pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Pantheon with Graves are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.