Graves with Talon
How to Synergize Graves and Talon
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Graves Talon Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Talon
Tips for Playing as Graves with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Graves Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Graves in LoL
The Graves Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Talon helps Graves perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Talon, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Talon does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Talon on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Talon. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Talon.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Talon on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Talon does a poor job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Talon?
There is no one best companion for Graves that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, Talon is a relatively poor ally for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 48.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Graves and Talon that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Talon has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you must be very careful when arranging Talon teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Graves and Talon together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Talon ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 in order to synergize with Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Graves and Talon synergy build include Black Cleaver, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Talon than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing alongside Talon with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Graves and Talon pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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