Graves with Shaco
How to Synergize Graves and Shaco
based on 2,074 Graves with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Shaco Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Graves with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Graves Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Graves in LoL
The Graves Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Shaco. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Shaco helps Graves perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Shaco, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Shaco provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Shaco on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Shaco does a poor job of covering Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Graves that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Shaco is a very typical teammate for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Graves and Shaco that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Shaco has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you must be cautious when arranging Shaco teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Graves and Shaco together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to work well with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Graves and Shaco synergy build include Black Cleaver, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Shaco than with most other typical builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when playing alongside Shaco with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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