Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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 Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Lissandra perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Graves, she gets a little drop in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Graves does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Graves.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Graves on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Graves is a good teammate for Lissandra. By playing on the same team as Lissandra, he improves their win rate by 1.5% to 51.0%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Lissandra and Graves that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Lissandra. That means Lissandra players don't need to be cautious when enlisting 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.
Playing cooperatively, Lissandra players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Lissandra and Graves together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Lissandra and Graves synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Graves than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 51.0% when playing alongside Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Graves with Lissandra are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.