Heimerdinger with Graves
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Graves
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Heimerdinger Graves Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Graves
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Graves
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Understand How Graves Will Play
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.
Heimerdinger Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Heimerdinger perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Graves, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This may indicate that Graves does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Heimerdinger plays with Graves on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Heimerdinger during teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Graves
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Graves is a good companion for Heimerdinger. By playing on the same team as Heimerdinger, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 51.1%. This shows that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Heimerdinger and Graves that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Heimerdinger. That means Heimerdinger players don't need to be cautious when finding Graves allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Heimerdinger and Graves together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger to synergize with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Heimerdinger and Graves synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 51.1% helping carry Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Heimerdinger players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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