Graves with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Graves and Kai'Sa
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Graves Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Graves with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Graves Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Graves in LoL
The Graves Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kai'Sa helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Kai'Sa, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Kai'Sa does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Kai'Sa on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Kai'Sa does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no ideal synergy for Graves that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a very bad ally for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, she decreases their win rate by -4.3% to 46.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Graves and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players need to be careful when lining up Kai'Sa teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Graves players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Graves and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Kai'Sa teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Graves and Kai'Sa synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Maw of Malmortius, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 46.2% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Graves players should use 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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