Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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 Ziggs 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, Ziggs sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Ziggs perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ziggs plays on the same team as Graves, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Graves does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Ziggs plays with Graves on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Ziggs during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Ziggs that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Graves is a very typical ally for Ziggs. By playing on the same side as Ziggs, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 48.5%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Ziggs and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Ziggs. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Graves teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Ziggs players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Ziggs and Graves together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs to pair well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Ziggs and Graves synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Ziggs players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Ziggs and Graves pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Graves with Ziggs are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.