Graves with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Graves and Blitzcrank
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Graves Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Graves with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
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.
Graves Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Graves in LoL
The Graves Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Blitzcrank helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Blitzcrank, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Blitzcrank helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Blitzcrank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Blitzcrank.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Blitzcrank on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Blitzcrank does a decent job of covering Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Blitzcrank is a pretty good ally for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he raises their win rate by 1.2% to 51.7%. This shows that there is a good bond between Graves and Blitzcrank that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Blitzcrank allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Graves players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Graves and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Blitzcrank ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to synergize with Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Graves and Blitzcrank synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Immortal Shieldbow, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Blitzcrank than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Graves players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Blitzcrank with Graves are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.