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Graves with Samira

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How to Synergize Graves and Samira

based on 7,351 Graves with Samira pairs
Win Rate
47.9 %
K/D/A
2.44
Pick Rate
4.4 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we download the stats from from millions of League of Legends games straight from Riot Games each week. Graves has fought alongside Samira in 7351 recently played, competitive games. By gathering so much accurate data directly from the developers of LoL, we have complete confidence that we can provide you with high-quality, insightful builds to help Graves play with Samira. It is somewhat uncommon for Graves to play with Samira on the same team. This has only occurred in approximately 4.4% of rounds with Graves.

Graves Samira Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Graves does a below average job of synergizing with Samira. On average, he wins a lowly 47.9% of matches the champions try and work together in. If you want to do better as Graves when playing with Samira by learning how to better synergize your playstyle with her, then dig into the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Graves vs Samira Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Mosstomper SeedlingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Serrated DirkYoumuu's Ghostblade

Core Graves Items

~22 Mins
Infinity EdgeBloodthirsterThe Collector

Optional Items

Guardian AngelOpportunityMortal ReminderLord Dominik's Regards

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Graves to level upq
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Second ability for Graves to level upe
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Last skill for Graves to max outw

Runes

PrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Graves's passive ability p
Graves's q ability q
Graves's w ability w
Graves's e ability e
Graves's ultimate ability r
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E
2
Q
3
Q
4
W
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Samira

Tips for Playing as Graves with Samira

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.

Graves Samira Synergy Stats

Graves Image
Win Rate
47.9 %
VS
Win Rate
52.1 %
Samira Image
6.8
< Kills >
7.3
5.7
< Deaths >
5.8
7.1
< Assists >
7
1.55
< Killing Sprees >
1.66
52
< Minions Killed >
54
1.54
< Dragons Killed >
1.54
0.44
< Inhibitors >
0.48
16,914
< Physical Damage >
17,681
801
< Magic Damage >
839
1,580
< True Damage >
1,633
19,296
< Damage Dealt >
20,153
28,882
< Damage Taken >
29,908
12,405
< Gold Earned >
12,774
1.66
< Towers >
1.72
0.33
< Baron Takedowns >
0.37
13,548
< Total Healing >
13,908
14,102
< Experience >
14,441
23
< Vision Score >
23
6
< Wards Placed >
6
491
< Time Dealing CC >
493

How to Play with Samira as Graves in LoL

The Graves Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Samira helps Graves perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.

When Graves plays on the same team as Samira, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Samira doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Samira on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Samira.

Additionally, when Graves plays with Samira on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Samira does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.

Synergies between Graves and Samira

Damage Types Compared

Graves
Samira
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Graves
Samira

Is Graves better when played alongside Samira?

There is no perfect ally for Graves that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Samira is a not very good ally for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, she decreases their win rate by -2.6% to 47.9%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Graves and Samira that allows them to perform worse together than alone.

Samira has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Samira comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.

Fighting on the same side, Graves players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.

Conversely, by pairing Graves and Samira together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.

Regardless of your Samira ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.

Additional Information for Graves Players

How We Calculated Our Graves Samira Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Graves and Samira, we analyzed 7,351 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Graves with Samira comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to pair well with Samira during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.

The ideal finished items to have in your Graves and Samira synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Samira than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing alongside Samira with these items in his kit.

To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Samira with Graves are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.