Graves with Ryze
How to Synergize Graves and Ryze
based on 1,550 Graves with Ryze pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Ryze Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Ryze
Tips for Playing as Graves with Ryze
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 Ryze Will Play
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
Graves Ryze Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ryze as Graves in LoL
The Graves Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ryze helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Ryze, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Ryze does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ryze.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Ryze on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Ryze does a poor job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
Synergies between Graves and Ryze
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Is Graves better when played alongside Ryze?
There is no top champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Ryze is a very typical companion for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 50.2%. This shows that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Graves and Ryze that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Ryze has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Ryze comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Graves players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Ryze together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of engage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Ryze ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to synergize with Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Graves and Ryze synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Graves included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Ryze than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 combinations we have analyed for Graves and Ryze pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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