Graves with Karma
How to Synergize Graves and Karma
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Graves Karma Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Karma Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Karma
Tips for Playing as Graves with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Graves Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Graves in LoL
The Graves Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Karma, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This may indicate that Karma supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Karma on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Karma.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Karma on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Karma does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Karma?
There is no top ally for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Karma is a relatively poor companion for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, she decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Graves and Karma that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Karma has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be careful when lining up Karma comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, Graves players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Graves and Karma together, you will not be giving your team very much support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Karma ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves to pair well with Karma during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Graves and Karma synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Karma than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 48.8% helping carry Karma with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Graves players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Zombie Ward, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Graves and Karma pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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