Graves with Skarner
How to Synergize Graves and Skarner
based on 125 Graves with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Graves with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Graves Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Graves in LoL
The Graves Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Skarner, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Skarner provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Skarner on the same team, he usually receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no top companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Skarner is a very bad ally for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, he drops their win rate by -3.3% to 47.2%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Graves and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Skarner has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players need to be careful when arranging Skarner comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Graves and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Graves and Skarner synergy build include Bloodthirster, The Collector, and Youmuu's Wake. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Skarner than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Graves players should take 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 combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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