Graves with Akshan
How to Synergize Graves and Akshan
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Graves Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Graves with Akshan
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.
Advice to Understand How Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Graves Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Graves in LoL
The Graves Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Graves sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akshan helps Graves perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Akshan, he observes a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Akshan does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Akshan 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 Akshan.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Akshan on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Akshan does a poor job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Graves that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Akshan is a not very good companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, they lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 47.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Graves and Akshan that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Graves. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Akshan allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Graves players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Graves and Akshan together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Akshan ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to work well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Graves and Akshan synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Akshan than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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