Graves with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Graves and Caitlyn
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Graves Caitlyn Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Graves with Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Graves Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Graves in LoL
The Graves Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Caitlyn helps Graves perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Caitlyn, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Caitlyn doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Caitlyn on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of protecting Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no one best companion for Graves that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Caitlyn is a very typical ally for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, she drops their win rate by -0.5% to 50.0%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Graves and Caitlyn that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Caitlyn has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players should be careful when arranging Caitlyn comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Graves and Caitlyn together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Caitlyn teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to pair well with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Graves and Caitlyn synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing alongside Caitlyn with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Graves and Caitlyn pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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