Graves with Veigar
How to Synergize Graves and Veigar
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Graves Veigar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Veigar
Tips for Playing as Graves with Veigar
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 Veigar Will Play
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Graves Veigar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Veigar as Graves in LoL
The Graves Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, 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 Veigar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Veigar helps Graves perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves plays on the same team as Veigar, he sees a little drop in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Veigar does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Veigar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Veigar.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Veigar on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Veigar does a poor job of covering Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Veigar?
There is no ideal companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Veigar is a not very good companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Graves and Veigar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Veigar has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means Graves players must be very careful when enlisting Veigar allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Veigar together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of engage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Veigar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Graves in order to pair well with Veigar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Graves and Veigar synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Veigar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Veigar with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take 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 runes players chose for Graves and Veigar pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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