Graves with Lucian
How to Synergize Graves and Lucian
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Graves Lucian Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Graves with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Graves Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Graves in LoL
The Graves Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lucian helps Graves perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Lucian, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This may signal that Lucian does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Lucian on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lucian.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Lucian on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Lucian does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no top ally for Graves that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Lucian is a relatively poor teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 49.0%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Graves and Lucian that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you must be very careful when arranging Lucian allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Graves and Lucian together, you will not be giving your team enough support. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Lucian teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to synergize with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Graves and Lucian synergy build include Guardian Angel, Maw of Malmortius, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Lucian than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Lucian with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Graves players should equip 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.0% winrate overall.
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