Graves with Vi
How to Synergize Graves and Vi
based on 357 Graves with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Vi Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Vi
Tips for Playing as Graves with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Graves Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Graves in LoL
The Graves Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vi helps Graves perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Vi, he sees a sizeable uptick in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Vi provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Vi on the same side, 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 Vi.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Vi on the same team, he on average receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Vi does a decent job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
Synergies between Graves and Vi
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Is Graves better when played alongside Vi?
There is no perfect companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Vi is a decent teammate for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, she improves their win rate by 1.0% to 51.5%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Graves and Vi that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Vi has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players need to be very careful when lining up Vi comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Graves players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Graves and Vi together, you will not be granting your side very much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vi ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Graves Vi Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves to pair well with Vi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Graves and Vi synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Vi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vi with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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 sets we have analyed for Graves and Vi pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Vi with Graves are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.