Leona with Graves
How to Synergize Leona and Graves
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Leona Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Graves
Tips for Playing as Leona with Graves
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Leona in LoL
The Leona Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Leona sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Leona perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Leona plays on the same team as Graves, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Graves does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Graves on the same side, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Leona in team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Graves?
There is no perfect ally for Leona that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, Graves is a very typical companion for Leona. By playing on the same team as Leona, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 52.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Leona and Graves that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Graves has a lower difficulty than Leona. That means Leona players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Graves allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Leona and Graves together, you may not be providing your other allies very much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Leona in order to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to include in your Leona and Graves synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 52.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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