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.
The Graves Qiyana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Qiyana, 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 Qiyana. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Qiyana helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Qiyana, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Qiyana does not 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 alongside Qiyana 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 with Qiyana.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Qiyana on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Qiyana does a decent job of protecting Graves in team fights.
There is no one best companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Qiyana is a very bad teammate for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, she lowers their win rate by -3.3% to 47.2%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Graves and Qiyana that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Qiyana has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you must be very careful when lining up Qiyana teammates to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Graves players should observe 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.
Although, by bringing Graves and Qiyana together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Qiyana ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to work well with Qiyana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Graves and Qiyana synergy build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Qiyana than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Qiyana with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Graves and Qiyana pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% win rate overall.
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