Graves with Kayn
How to Synergize Graves and Kayn
based on 540 Graves with Kayn pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Graves with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Graves Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Graves in LoL
The Graves Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kayn helps Graves perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Kayn, he sees a sizeable uptick in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Kayn provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Kayn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Kayn on the same team, he on average takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Kayn does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
Synergies between Graves and Kayn
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Is Graves better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no ideal synergy for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, Kayn is a terrible ally for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, he drops their win rate by -4.8% to 45.7%. This proves that there is a terrible bond between Graves and Kayn that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kayn has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players must be cautious when finding Kayn allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Graves and Kayn together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much magic damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to synergize with Kayn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Graves and Kayn synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Kayn than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 45.7% helping carry Kayn with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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