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.
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
The Graves Syndra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Syndra, 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 Syndra. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Syndra helps Graves perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is an ally to Syndra, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Syndra helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Syndra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Syndra. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Syndra.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Syndra on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Syndra does a poor job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Syndra is a not very good teammate for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, she decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 49.3%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Graves and Syndra that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Syndra has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Syndra allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Graves and Syndra together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of protection for burst damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Syndra ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Graves and Syndra synergy build include Bloodthirster, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Syndra than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Syndra with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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