Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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 Poppy 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, Poppy sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Poppy perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Poppy plays on the same team as Graves, she sees a clear improvement in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Graves provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Poppy plays with Graves on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Poppy during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Poppy that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Graves is a good companion for Poppy. By being on the same side as Poppy, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 52.1%. This shows that there is a somewhat important synergy between Poppy and Graves that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Poppy. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Poppy players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Poppy and Graves together, you will not be providing your team much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Poppy in order to pair well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Poppy and Graves synergy build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy bought at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Poppy boasted an average winrate of 52.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Poppy and Graves pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.1% win rate overall.
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