Katarina with Graves
How to Synergize Katarina and Graves
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Katarina Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Graves
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Graves
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Graves helps Katarina perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Graves, she gets a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Graves does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Graves on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Katarina in team fights.
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Graves?
There is no one best champion pairing for Katarina that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, Graves is a good ally for Katarina. By locking into the same side as Katarina, he increases their win rate by 1.9% to 50.7%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Katarina and Graves that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Katarina. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Graves teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Graves together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina in order to synergize with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Katarina and Graves synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Graves than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 50.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Katarina and Graves pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% win rate overall.
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