Graves with Karthus
How to Synergize Graves and Karthus
based on 1,118 Graves with Karthus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Graves with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Graves Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Graves in LoL
The Graves Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Karthus helps Graves perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Karthus, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Karthus provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Karthus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Karthus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Karthus.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Karthus on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Karthus does a poor job of protecting Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no top companion for Graves that will always be his #1 ally. However, Karthus is a relatively poor ally for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 48.1%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Graves and Karthus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Karthus has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you must be cautious when finding Karthus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Graves players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Graves and Karthus together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves to synergize with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Graves and Karthus synergy build include Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Karthus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Graves players should equip 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 rune combinations players used for Graves and Karthus pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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