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 Qiyana 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, Qiyana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Qiyana perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Qiyana is an ally to Graves, she sees a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This may indicate that Graves does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Qiyana is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Qiyana plays with Graves on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Qiyana in teamfights.
There is no perfect synergy for Qiyana that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, Graves is a very typical ally for Qiyana. By playing on the same team as Qiyana, he decreases their win rate by -0.6% to 47.2%. This signals that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Qiyana and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Qiyana. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Qiyana and Graves together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Qiyana to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Qiyana and Graves synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Qiyana combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Qiyana had an average win rate of 47.2% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Qiyana players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Graves with Qiyana are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.