Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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 K'Sante Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Graves helps K'Sante perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When K'Sante is an ally to Graves, they gets a little drop in their complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Graves doesn't help cover for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Graves.
Additionally, when K'Sante plays with Graves on the same team, they often receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting K'Sante in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for K'Sante that will no matter what be their best synergy. However, Graves is a very typical ally for K'Sante. By locking into the same side as K'Sante, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 48.1%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between K'Sante and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than K'Sante. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Graves allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, K'Sante players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping K'Sante and Graves together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your K'Sante and Graves synergy build include Unending Despair, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Graves with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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