Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
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 Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Jarvan IV perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jarvan IV tries to synergize with Graves, he gets a clear improvement in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Graves helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played with Graves 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 alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Jarvan IV plays with Graves on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Jarvan IV during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Jarvan IV that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Graves is a below average teammate for Jarvan IV. By being on the same team as Jarvan IV, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 45.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad synergy between Jarvan IV and Graves that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Jarvan IV. That means Jarvan IV players don't need to be cautious when finding Graves comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Jarvan IV players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Jarvan IV and Graves together, you will not be granting your other teammates a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Jarvan IV to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Jarvan IV and Graves synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Jarvan IV had an average winrate of 45.9% helping carry Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Graves with Jarvan IV are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.