Graves with Zilean
How to Synergize Graves and Zilean
based on 2,007 Graves with Zilean pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Zilean Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Graves with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Graves Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Graves in LoL
The Graves Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Zilean, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Zilean helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zilean. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zilean.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Zilean on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Zilean does a poor job of covering Graves in team fights.
Synergies between Graves and Zilean
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Is Graves better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Graves that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Zilean is a good ally for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he increases their win rate by 2.4% to 52.9%. This signals that there is a good bond between Graves and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Zilean has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Zilean allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Graves players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Graves and Zilean together, you may not be granting your side a lot of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing 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 Zilean during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Graves and Zilean synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when playing alongside Zilean with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Graves players should equip 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 runes that we analyzed for Graves and Zilean pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.9% winrate overall.
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