Graves with Zed
How to Synergize Graves and Zed
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Graves Zed Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Zed
Tips for Playing as Graves with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Graves Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Graves in LoL
The Graves Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves tries to synergize with Zed, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Zed 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 Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Zed on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal ally for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Zed is a below average companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 48.3%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Graves and Zed that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Zed has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players should be very careful when finding Zed teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Graves and Zed together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Zed ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Graves and Zed synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Zed than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 48.3% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% win rate overall.
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