Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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 Morgana 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, Morgana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Morgana perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Morgana tries to synergize with Graves, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This may signal that Graves does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Morgana is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Morgana plays with Graves on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Morgana in team fights.
There is no one best synergy for Morgana that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, Graves is a very typical ally for Morgana. By being on the same team as Morgana, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 50.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Morgana and Graves that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Graves has a greater difficulty than Morgana. That means Morgana players must be cautious when lining up Graves allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Morgana players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Morgana and Graves together, you may not be granting your other allies very much AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Morgana in order to pair well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Morgana and Graves synergy build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Morgana had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Triple Tonic, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Morgana and Graves pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Graves with Morgana are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.