Annie with Graves
How to Synergize Annie and Graves
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Annie Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Graves
Tips for Playing as Annie with Graves
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Annie perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie tries to synergize with Graves, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Graves provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Graves on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Annie during team fights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Annie that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Graves is a decent companion for Annie. By locking into the same side as Annie, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 51.8%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Annie and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Annie. That means Annie players don't need to be very careful when lining up Graves comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Annie and Graves together, you may not be providing your side much tankyness. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Annie to pair well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Annie and Graves synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Annie included at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Annie had an average winrate of 51.8% when playing alongside Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Annie players should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Graves with Annie are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.