Graves with Yorick
How to Synergize Graves and Yorick
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Graves Yorick Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Yorick Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Graves with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Graves Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Graves in LoL
The Graves Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yorick helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is an ally to Yorick, he observes a noticable drop in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Yorick does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yorick.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Yorick on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Graves that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Yorick is a relatively poor companion for Graves. By playing on the same side as Graves, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Graves and Yorick that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Yorick has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be careful when finding Yorick comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Graves and Yorick together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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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 Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Graves and Yorick synergy build include Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Yorick than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Graves players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Treasure Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Graves and Yorick pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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