Varus with Graves
How to Synergize Varus and Graves
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Varus Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Graves
Tips for Playing as Varus with Graves
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus sees a large worsening in his 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 Varus perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Varus is an ally to Graves, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Graves doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Varus plays with Graves on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Varus in teamfights.
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Is Varus better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect ally for Varus that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. However, Graves is a very typical ally for Varus. By locking into the same team as Varus, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 47.9%. This shows that there is not really a strong synergy between Varus and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Graves has a greater difficulty than Varus. That means you must be very careful when lining up Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Varus and Graves together, you may not be granting your team a lot of support. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Varus to work well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Varus and Graves synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Varus bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other typical builds. In fact, Varus had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing alongside Graves with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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