Vi with Graves
How to Synergize Vi and Graves
based on 357 Vi with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vi Graves Synergy Summary
Best Vi vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Graves
Tips for Playing as Vi with Graves
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi 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 decrease shows that Graves helps Vi perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vi tries to synergize with Graves, she sees a little drop in her total damage output. This may indicate that Graves does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played together with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Vi plays with Graves on the same side, she usually receives less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Vi during team fights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Vi that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Vi. By locking into the same team as Vi, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 51.5%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Vi and Graves that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Vi. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Graves allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Vi and Graves together, you will not be providing your other allies very much utility. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vi to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Vi and Graves synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Vi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Graves than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vi had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing alongside Graves with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Vi players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Vi and Graves pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Graves with Vi are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.