Graves with Sylas
How to Synergize Graves and Sylas
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Graves Sylas Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Graves with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Graves Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Graves in LoL
The Graves Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Sylas helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Sylas, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Sylas does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Sylas on the same team, 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 Sylas.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Sylas on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Sylas does a decent job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Graves that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Sylas is a very typical teammate for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 51.0%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Graves and Sylas that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Sylas has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Sylas allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Graves players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Graves and Sylas together, you probably will not be granting your side enough crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Sylas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to pair well with Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Graves and Sylas synergy build include Black Cleaver, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Sylas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Graves players 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 Graves and Sylas pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.0% winrate overall.
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