Kayn with Graves
How to Synergize Kayn and Graves
based on 540 Kayn with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayn Graves Synergy Summary
Best Kayn vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Graves
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Graves
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Kayn perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn is paired with Graves, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Graves provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Graves on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Kayn during team fights.
Synergies between Kayn and Graves
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal ally for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, overall, Graves is a very bad companion for Kayn. By locking into the same side as Kayn, he lowers their win rate by -3.5% to 45.7%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kayn and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Kayn. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Kayn and Graves together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn to pair well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Kayn and Graves synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Kayn used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 45.7% when playing alongside Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Kayn players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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