Kassadin with Graves
How to Synergize Kassadin and Graves
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Kassadin Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Graves
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Graves
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Advice to Understand How Graves Will Play
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.
Kassadin Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Kassadin perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin is an ally to Graves, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Graves doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Graves on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Kassadin during team fights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kassadin that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Graves is a good teammate for Kassadin. By playing on the same side as Kassadin, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 51.2%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Kassadin and Graves that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Kassadin and Graves together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Kassadin in order to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Kassadin and Graves synergy build consist of Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 51.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Kassadin players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Kassadin and Graves pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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