Graves with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Graves and Nunu & Willump
based on 479 Graves with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Graves with Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Graves Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Graves in LoL
The Graves Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nunu & Willump. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nunu & Willump helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Nunu & Willump, he sees a noticable increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Nunu & Willump helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Graves in team fights.
Synergies between Graves and Nunu & Willump
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Is Graves better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no ideal companion for Graves that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Nunu & Willump is a very bad companion for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he drops their win rate by -3.5% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Graves and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nunu & Willump has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you must be cautious when finding Nunu & Willump allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Graves and Nunu & Willump together, you will not be providing your side very much support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nunu & Willump ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 truly master Graves to pair well with Nunu & Willump during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Graves and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Black Cleaver, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Nunu & Willump than with most other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Nunu & Willump with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take 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 combinations players picked for Graves and Nunu & Willump pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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