Graves with Kalista
How to Synergize Graves and Kalista
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Graves Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Graves with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Graves Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Graves in LoL
The Graves Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kalista helps Graves perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Kalista, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This may indicate that Kalista does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kalista. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kalista.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Kalista on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kalista does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Graves that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Kalista is a below average ally for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, she decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 48.1%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Graves and Kalista that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kalista has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you should be very careful when lining up Kalista allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Graves and Kalista together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Kalista ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to work well with Kalista during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Graves and Kalista synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kalista than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 48.1% when playing alongside Kalista with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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