Graves with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Graves and Xin Zhao
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Graves Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Graves with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Graves Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Graves in LoL
The Graves Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Graves perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Xin Zhao, he gets a little increase in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Xin Zhao supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he on average receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no ideal synergy for Graves that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Xin Zhao is a decent teammate for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 52.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Graves and Xin Zhao that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a lower difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players don't need to be very careful when arranging Xin Zhao allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Graves and Xin Zhao together, you may not be providing your other allies very much utility. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Xin Zhao teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Graves and Xin Zhao synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with most other common builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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