Graves with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Graves and Rek'Sai
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Graves Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Graves with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Graves Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Graves in LoL
The Graves Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Rek'Sai helps Graves perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Rek'Sai, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Rek'Sai does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Rek'Sai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Rek'Sai on the same team, he on average receives much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Rek'Sai does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
Synergies between Graves and Rek'Sai
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Is Graves better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Graves that will always be his top ally. However, Rek'Sai is a very typical teammate for Graves. By locking into the same side as Graves, he lowers their win rate by -0.1% to 50.4%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Graves and Rek'Sai that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rek'Sai has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players don't need to be very careful when lining up Rek'Sai allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Graves players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Rek'Sai together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of AP. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves to pair well with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Graves and Rek'Sai synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, The Collector, and Youmuu's Wake. When Graves included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Rek'Sai than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Graves and Rek'Sai pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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