Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
The Janna Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Janna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Janna perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Janna is an ally to Graves, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Graves doesn't help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Janna is played with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Janna plays with Graves on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Janna during teamfights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Janna that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Graves is a very typical teammate for Janna. By playing on the same team as Janna, he lowers their win rate by -0.3% to 50.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Janna and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Janna. That means Janna players don't need to be careful when enlisting Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Janna players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Janna and Graves together, you may not be giving your side very much AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Janna and Graves synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Janna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Janna and Graves pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Graves with Janna are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.