Graves with Olaf
How to Synergize Graves and Olaf
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Graves Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Graves with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Graves Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Graves in LoL
The Graves Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Olaf helps Graves perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Olaf, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Olaf doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Olaf.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Olaf on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Olaf does a decent job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no ideal ally for Graves that will always be his #1 ally. However, Olaf is a not very good companion for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 48.4%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Graves and Olaf that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Olaf has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Olaf teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Olaf together, you may not be granting your side enough utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to work well with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Graves and Olaf synergy build include Black Cleaver, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Maw of Malmortius. When Graves bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Olaf than with many other common builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 sets players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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