Graves with Poppy
How to Synergize Graves and Poppy
based on 1,573 Graves with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Graves with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Graves Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Graves in LoL
The Graves Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Poppy helps Graves perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Poppy, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could signal that Poppy helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Poppy on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Poppy does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Poppy is a decent teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, she improves their win rate by 1.6% to 52.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Graves and Poppy that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Poppy has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be cautious when arranging Poppy allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Graves and Poppy together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Poppy ally, you need to focus on increasing your 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to synergize with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Graves and Poppy synergy build include Black Cleaver, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Poppy than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing 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 sets we have analyed for Graves and Poppy pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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