Graves with Xerath
How to Synergize Graves and Xerath
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Graves Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Graves with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Graves Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Graves in LoL
The Graves Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xerath helps Graves perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Xerath, he gets a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Xerath does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Xerath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xerath.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Xerath on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Graves that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, Xerath is a very typical teammate for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he raises their win rate by 0.9% to 51.4%. This demonstrates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Graves and Xerath that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you should be careful when enlisting Xerath teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Graves and Xerath together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves to work well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Graves and Xerath synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when playing alongside Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Graves players should use 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 used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.4% win rate overall.
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