Blitzcrank with Graves
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Graves
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Blitzcrank Graves Synergy Summary
Best Blitzcrank vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Graves
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Graves
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
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.
Blitzcrank Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank 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, Blitzcrank sees a large worsening 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 Blitzcrank perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Blitzcrank is paired with Graves, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Graves does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Blitzcrank plays with Graves on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Blitzcrank during teamfights.
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Graves?
There is no ideal synergy for Blitzcrank that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Graves is a very typical teammate for Blitzcrank. By playing on the same team as Blitzcrank, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 51.7%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Blitzcrank and Graves that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Blitzcrank. That means Blitzcrank players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by pairing Blitzcrank and Graves together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Blitzcrank in order to pair well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Blitzcrank and Graves synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Blitzcrank used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other common builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.7% win rate overall.
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