To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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 Syndra 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, Syndra 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 negative change shows that Graves helps Syndra perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Syndra tries to synergize with Graves, she observes a barely noticable drop in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Graves doesn't help protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Syndra is played with Graves on the same team, 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 alongside Graves.
Moreover, when Syndra plays with Graves on the same side, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Syndra in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Syndra that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, Graves is a very typical ally for Syndra. By locking into the same team as Syndra, he increases their win rate by 0.6% to 49.3%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Syndra and Graves that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Syndra. That means Syndra players don't need to be very careful when finding Graves comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Syndra players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Syndra and Graves together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Syndra in order to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Syndra and Graves synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Syndra used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Syndra boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Graves with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Syndra players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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