Graves with Rakan
How to Synergize Graves and Rakan
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Graves Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Graves with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Graves Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Graves in LoL
The Graves Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Rakan helps Graves perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves plays on the same team as Rakan, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Rakan helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Rakan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Rakan on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
Synergies between Graves and Rakan
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Is Graves better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no ideal synergy for Graves that will always be his top ally. However, Rakan is a very typical ally for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he increases their win rate by 0.8% to 51.3%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong bond between Graves and Rakan that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Rakan has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be very careful when finding Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Graves players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Graves and Rakan together, you will not be giving your team a lot of engage. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Graves in order to synergize with Rakan during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Graves and Rakan synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Maw of Malmortius. When Graves bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Rakan than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing alongside Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.3% win rate overall.
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