Graves with Vladimir
How to Synergize Graves and Vladimir
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Graves Vladimir Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Graves with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Graves Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Graves in LoL
The Graves Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Vladimir helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Vladimir, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Vladimir doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Vladimir 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 Vladimir.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Vladimir on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Graves in teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no ideal ally for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Vladimir is a pretty good ally for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he increases their win rate by 1.8% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Graves and Vladimir that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Vladimir has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Vladimir comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by pairing Graves and Vladimir together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Vladimir ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 in order to work well with Vladimir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Graves and Vladimir synergy build include Black Cleaver, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Vladimir than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 52.3% helping carry Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.3% win rate overall.
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