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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 Naafiri 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, Naafiri sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Naafiri is paired with Graves, they gets a little increase in their total damage output. This difference could signal that Graves helps provide protection for them to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Naafiri plays with Graves on the same side, they typically takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Naafiri during teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Naafiri that will always be their top ally. Yet, Graves is a very typical teammate for Naafiri. By being on the same team as Naafiri, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 50.5%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Naafiri and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a greater difficulty than Naafiri. That means Naafiri players need to be careful when lining up Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Naafiri and Graves together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Naafiri and Graves synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Naafiri combined at least these three great items in their build, they did significantly better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Graves with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Naafiri and Graves pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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