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 Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Samira helps Graves perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Samira, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Samira doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Samira 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 with Samira.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Samira on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Samira does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Graves that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Samira is a not very good ally for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, she decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 47.9%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Graves and Samira that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Samira has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Samira comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Graves players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Graves and Samira together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Samira ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to pair well with Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Graves and Samira synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Samira than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing alongside Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Samira with Graves are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.