Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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 LeBlanc 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, LeBlanc sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps LeBlanc perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When LeBlanc is an ally to Graves, she gets a small increase in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Graves helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when LeBlanc is played together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when LeBlanc plays with Graves on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Graves does a poor job of covering LeBlanc in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for LeBlanc that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Graves is a very typical ally for LeBlanc. By playing on the same side as LeBlanc, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 47.6%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between LeBlanc and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than LeBlanc. That means LeBlanc players don't need to be cautious when finding Graves teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, LeBlanc players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing LeBlanc and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, 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.
To learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc in order to pair well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your LeBlanc and Graves synergy build include Void Staff, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When LeBlanc included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, LeBlanc had an average win rate of 47.6% helping carry Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, LeBlanc players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Graves with LeBlanc are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.