Xerath with Graves
How to Synergize Xerath and Graves
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Xerath Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Graves
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Graves
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Xerath perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Xerath is paired with Graves, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Graves does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played with 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 alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Graves on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Xerath during teamfights.
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Graves?
There is no one best ally for Xerath that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Graves is a very typical ally for Xerath. By playing on the same team as Xerath, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 51.4%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Xerath and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Xerath. That means Xerath players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Graves comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Xerath and Graves together, you may not be giving your side much crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 Xerath in order to pair well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Xerath and Graves synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Stormsurge. When Xerath combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average win rate of 51.4% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Scorch, and Manaflow Band runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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