Powerball can be used as an effective escape mechanism.
Tremors and Defensive Ball Curl can be used late in the game to obliterate towers. If you're bogged down in a team fight, it is often valuable to break off and attack the buildings.
Using taunt on a champion by your tower can cause the tower to attack your enemy.
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 Rammus Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rammus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Graves helps Rammus perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rammus tries to synergize with Graves, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Graves provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Rammus is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Rammus plays with Graves on the same team, he usually receives less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Rammus in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Rammus that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Graves is a very typical ally for Rammus. By playing on the same team as Rammus, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Rammus and Graves that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Rammus. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Graves allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Rammus players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Rammus and Graves together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Rammus in order to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Rammus and Graves synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Rammus bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Rammus boasted an average winrate of 50.7% when playing alongside Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Rammus players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rammus and Graves pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Graves with Rammus are presented for all ranked divisions. To filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.