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Taliyah with Graves

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How to Synergize Taliyah and Graves

based on 1,492 Taliyah with Graves pairs
Win Rate
49.9 %
K/D/A
2.22
Pick Rate
3.6 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers take in the stats from from millions of League matches directly from Riot Games each and every week. Taliyah has fought alongside Graves in 1492 recently played, ranked games. By amassing so much complete data directly from the creators of League, we feel confident that we can present to you high-quality, usable builds to help Taliyah play with Graves. It is relatively rare for Taliyah to play with Graves on the same team. This has only occurred in approx. 3.6% of rounds with Taliyah.

Taliyah Graves Synergy Summary

Taliyah does a average job of synergizing with Graves. Usually, she wins an acceptable 49.9% of the time the champs appear on the same team. If you want to do better as Taliyah when playing alongside Graves by figuring out how to better synergize your play style with him, then look into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Taliyah vs Graves Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's RingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
BootsLost Chapter

Core Taliyah Items

~22 Mins
Seraph's EmbraceZhonya's HourglassShadowflame

Optional Items

Rabadon's DeathcapCosmic DriveStormsurgeLiandry's Torment

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Taliyah to level upq
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Second ability for Taliyah to level upe
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Last skill for Taliyah to max outw

Runes

DominationDark HarvestCheap ShotEyeball CollectionTreasure Hunter
ResolveBone PlatingOvergrowth
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceMagic Resist
Taliyah's passive ability p
Taliyah's q ability q
Taliyah's w ability w
Taliyah's e ability e
Taliyah's ultimate ability r
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E
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Graves

Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Graves

Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.

Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.

Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.

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.

Taliyah Graves Synergy Stats

Taliyah Image
Win Rate
49.9 %
VS
Win Rate
50.1 %
Graves Image
5.8
< Kills >
6.1
6.4
< Deaths >
6.5
8.4
< Assists >
8.5
1.34
< Killing Sprees >
1.41
162
< Minions Killed >
124
0.13
< Dragons Killed >
0.56
0.43
< Inhibitors >
0.43
800
< Physical Damage >
779
21,131
< Magic Damage >
20,979
825
< True Damage >
1,125
22,756
< Damage Dealt >
22,884
19,535
< Damage Taken >
21,412
11,748
< Gold Earned >
12,155
1.8
< Towers >
1.68
0.05
< Baron Takedowns >
0.15
2,148
< Total Healing >
4,379
14,093
< Experience >
14,292
23
< Vision Score >
23
11
< Wards Placed >
9
463
< Time Dealing CC >
552

How to Play with Graves as Taliyah in LoL

The Taliyah 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, Taliyah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Taliyah perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Taliyah tries to synergize with Graves, she observes a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Graves does not support by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Graves.

Moreover, when Taliyah plays with Graves on the same side, she on average receives less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Taliyah in team fights.

Synergies between Taliyah and Graves

Damage Types Compared

Taliyah
Graves
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Taliyah
Graves

Is Taliyah better when played alongside Graves?

There is no universally accepted best companion for Taliyah that will always be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Graves is a pretty good companion for Taliyah. By being on the same team as Taliyah, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 49.9%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Taliyah and Graves that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.

Graves has a lower difficulty than Taliyah. That means Taliyah players don't need to be very careful when finding Graves allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.

Working together, Taliyah players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two will be a great protective duo.

In contrast, by bringing Taliyah and Graves together, you may not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their playstyle.

Regardless of the skill of your Graves teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Taliyah Players

How We Calculated Our Taliyah Graves Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Taliyah and Graves, we analyzed 1,492 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Taliyah with Graves comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to truly master Taliyah in order to pair well with Graves during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.

The top finished items to have in your Taliyah and Graves synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Taliyah used at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Graves with these items in her kit.

To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Taliyah players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% win rate overall.

If you want to view Taliyah and Graves collaboration tips and stats for a an individual player tier, feel free to choose one from the selection menu provided above. If viewing for the first time, the statistics and tips and suggestions shown are calculated using every round finished with these champs.