Graves with Soraka
How to Synergize Graves and Soraka
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Graves Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Graves with Soraka
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 Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Graves Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Graves in LoL
The Graves Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, 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 Soraka. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Soraka helps Graves perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Soraka, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Soraka supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Soraka.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Soraka on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no one best champion pairing for Graves that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Soraka is a very typical teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, she improves their win rate by 0.3% to 50.8%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Graves and Soraka that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Soraka has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players don't need to be very careful when lining up Soraka allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Graves players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Soraka together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Soraka teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 work well with Soraka 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Graves and Soraka synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Soraka than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Soraka with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
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