Brand with Graves
How to Synergize Brand and Graves
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Brand Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Graves
Tips for Playing as Brand with Graves
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Brand perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand tries to synergize with Graves, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may indicate that Graves doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played with Graves on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Graves on the same team, he on average receives much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Brand during teamfights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Graves?
There is no one best synergy for Brand that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Graves is a very typical teammate for Brand. By locking into the same side as Brand, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 50.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Brand and Graves that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Brand. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Brand and Graves together, you probably will not be giving your team very much cover. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Brand and Graves synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 50.7% helping carry Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% winrate overall.
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