Graves with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Graves and Vel'Koz
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Graves Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Graves with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Graves Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Graves in LoL
The Graves Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vel'Koz helps Graves perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Vel'Koz, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Vel'Koz does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Vel'Koz 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 synergisticly with Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of covering Graves in teamfights.
Synergies between Graves and Vel'Koz
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Is Graves better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no top companion for Graves that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical ally for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a weak synergy between Graves and Vel'Koz that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Vel'Koz has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Vel'Koz teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Graves and Vel'Koz together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's ability, you should 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 to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Graves and Vel'Koz synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Vel'Koz than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 50.2% helping carry Vel'Koz with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Graves and Vel'Koz pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.2% win rate overall.
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