Graves with Gwen
How to Synergize Graves and Gwen
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Graves Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Graves with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Graves Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Graves in LoL
The Graves Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Gwen, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Gwen does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Gwen 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 with Gwen.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Gwen on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no perfect synergy for Graves that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Gwen is a below average teammate for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, she drops their win rate by -1.3% to 49.2%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Graves and Gwen that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gwen has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players must be very careful when enlisting Gwen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Graves players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Graves and Gwen together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Gwen ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to work well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Graves and Gwen synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Graves incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Gwen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 49.2% helping carry Gwen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Graves players should equip 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 runes players used for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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