Graves with Taliyah
How to Synergize Graves and Taliyah
based on 1,492 Graves with Taliyah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Taliyah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Graves with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Graves Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Graves in LoL
The Graves Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taliyah helps Graves perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Taliyah, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Taliyah does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Taliyah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Taliyah.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Taliyah on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Taliyah does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no perfect companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Taliyah is a very typical ally for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, she lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 49.9%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Graves and Taliyah that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Taliyah has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you must be cautious when arranging Taliyah comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Taliyah together, you will not be providing your side much crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Taliyah ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to work well with Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Graves and Taliyah synergy build include Black Cleaver, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Taliyah than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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