Akali with Graves
How to Synergize Akali and Graves
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Akali Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Graves
Tips for Playing as Akali with Graves
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a very large drop in her 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 Akali perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali tries to synergize with Graves, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Graves does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Graves on the same team, 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 Akali plays with Graves on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Akali in team fights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Akali that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. Yet, Graves is a very typical companion for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 49.5%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Akali and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Akali. That means Akali players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Graves allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Akali and Graves together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your 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
To truly master Akali to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Akali and Graves synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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