Graves with Taric
How to Synergize Graves and Taric
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Graves Taric Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Taric
Tips for Playing as Graves with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Graves Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Graves in LoL
The Graves Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Taric. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taric helps Graves perform worse 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 Taric, he sees a small increase in his total damage output. This could indicate that Taric provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Taric 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 with Taric.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Taric on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Taric does a decent job of protecting Graves during team fights.
Synergies between Graves and Taric
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Is Graves better when played alongside Taric?
There is no one best champion pairing for Graves that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Taric is a pretty good teammate for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 52.7%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Graves and Taric that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Taric has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players don't need to be careful when finding Taric allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Graves players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Taric together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Taric ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to synergize with Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Graves and Taric synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Taric than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 52.7% helping carry Taric with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against 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 combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% win rate overall.
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