Aphelios with Graves
How to Synergize Aphelios and Graves
based on 3,784 Aphelios with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Graves Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Graves
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Graves
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Aphelios perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aphelios is an ally to Graves, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Graves does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Graves on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Graves
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal companion for Aphelios that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Graves is a very typical companion for Aphelios. By being on the same side as Aphelios, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 48.8%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Aphelios and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Aphelios and Graves together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Aphelios to synergize with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Aphelios and Graves synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Bloodthirster. When Aphelios used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.8% win rate overall.
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