Neeko with Graves
How to Synergize Neeko and Graves
based on 4,526 Neeko with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Neeko Graves Synergy Summary
Best Neeko vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Neeko and Graves
Tips for Playing as Neeko with Graves
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Advice to Understand How Graves Will Play
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.
Neeko Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Neeko in LoL
The Neeko 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, Neeko sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Neeko perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Neeko plays on the same team as Graves, she gets a little decrease in her complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Graves doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played together with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Neeko plays with Graves on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Neeko during team fights.
Synergies between Neeko and Graves
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Is Neeko better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Neeko that will always be her #1 ally. However, Graves is a pretty good teammate for Neeko. By playing on the same team as Neeko, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 50.7%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Neeko and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Neeko. That means Neeko players don't need to be careful when arranging Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Neeko players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Neeko and Graves together, you probably will not be granting your side enough engage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Neeko to synergize with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Neeko and Graves synergy build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Neeko combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Neeko had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Graves with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Neeko and Graves pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Graves with Neeko are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.