Graves with Darius
How to Synergize Graves and Darius
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Graves Darius Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Darius
Tips for Playing as Graves with Darius
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 Darius Will Play
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Graves Darius Synergy Stats
How to Play with Darius as Graves in LoL
The Graves Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 Darius. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Darius helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Darius, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Darius does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Darius.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Darius on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Darius does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Darius?
There is no top companion for Graves that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Darius is a below average companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he decreases their win rate by -1.3% to 49.2%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Graves and Darius that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Darius has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players don't need to be cautious when arranging Darius allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Graves and Darius together, you will not be giving your team a great deal of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Darius teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to work well with Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Graves and Darius synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Darius than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing alongside Darius with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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