Graves with Zoe
How to Synergize Graves and Zoe
based on 2,254 Graves with Zoe pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Zoe Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Zoe
Tips for Playing as Graves with Zoe
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 Zoe Will Play
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Graves Zoe Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zoe as Graves in LoL
The Graves Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zoe helps Graves perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is paired with Zoe, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Zoe does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played alongside Zoe 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 with Zoe.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Zoe on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zoe does a poor job of covering Graves during team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Zoe?
There is no ideal synergy for Graves that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Zoe is a terrible companion for Graves. By playing on the same team as Graves, she drops their win rate by -3.3% to 47.2%. This demonstrates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Graves and Zoe that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Zoe has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Zoe comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by grouping Graves and Zoe together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
If you would like to truly master Graves to synergize with Zoe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to use in your Graves and Zoe synergy build include Black Cleaver, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zoe than with many other typical builds. In fact, Graves had an average win rate of 47.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
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