Graves with Thresh
How to Synergize Graves and Thresh
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Graves Thresh Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Graves with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Graves Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Graves in LoL
The Graves Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Thresh helps Graves perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Thresh, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Thresh helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Thresh 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 alongside Thresh.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Thresh on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Thresh does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no top champion pairing for Graves that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Thresh is a relatively poor teammate for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 49.3%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Graves and Thresh that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Thresh has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Thresh comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Graves and Thresh together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough magic damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to synergize with Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Graves and Thresh synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Thresh than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Graves and Thresh pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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