Graves with Bard
How to Synergize Graves and Bard
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Graves Bard Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Bard
Tips for Playing as Graves with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Graves Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Graves in LoL
The Graves Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is an ally to Bard, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Bard provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Bard on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Graves that will always be his best ally. However, Bard is a pretty good companion for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 52.4%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Graves and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you must be very careful when lining up Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Graves and Bard together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Graves and Bard synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 52.4% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Graves and Bard pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.4% winrate overall.
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