Graves with Tristana
How to Synergize Graves and Tristana
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Graves Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Graves with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Graves Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Graves in LoL
The Graves Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Tristana helps Graves perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Tristana, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Tristana does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Tristana on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Tristana.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Tristana on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Tristana does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Graves that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Tristana is a below average ally for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, she lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Graves and Tristana that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Tristana has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players must be very careful when arranging Tristana comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Graves and Tristana together, you may not be giving your other teammates much support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Tristana ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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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 synergize with Tristana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Graves and Tristana synergy build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Tristana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Tristana with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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