Viktor with Graves
How to Synergize Viktor and Graves
based on 2,840 Viktor with Graves pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Graves Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Graves
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Graves
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Viktor perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Viktor plays on the same team as Graves, he gets a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Graves does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Graves on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Viktor during teamfights.
Synergies between Viktor and Graves
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Viktor that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Graves is a very typical teammate for Viktor. By playing on the same side as Viktor, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 49.8%. This proves that there is a weak strategic relationship between Viktor and Graves that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Viktor. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Viktor players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Viktor and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your side very much support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Graves ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Viktor in order to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Viktor and Graves synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Viktor included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Viktor boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Viktor players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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