Orianna with Graves
How to Synergize Orianna and Graves
based on 2,275 Orianna with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Orianna Graves Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Graves
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Graves
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Orianna perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna plays on the same team as Graves, she sees a barely noticable drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Graves does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Moreover, when Orianna plays with Graves on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Orianna in teamfights.
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Orianna that will always be her #1 teammate. Yet, Graves is a very typical companion for Orianna. By locking into the same team as Orianna, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 47.9%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Orianna and Graves that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Orianna. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing together, Orianna players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Orianna and Graves together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Orianna in order to work well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Orianna and Graves synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Orianna included at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Orianna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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