Vladimir with Graves
How to Synergize Vladimir and Graves
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Vladimir Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vladimir and Graves
Tips for Playing as Vladimir with Graves
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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.
Vladimir Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Vladimir in LoL
The Vladimir 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, Vladimir sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Graves helps Vladimir perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vladimir is paired with Graves, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Graves does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Vladimir is played alongside Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Graves.
Moreover, when Vladimir plays with Graves on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Vladimir in team fights.
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Is Vladimir better when played alongside Graves?
There is no one best champion pairing for Vladimir that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Graves is a pretty good companion for Vladimir. By being on the same side as Vladimir, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 52.3%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Vladimir and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Vladimir. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Vladimir and Graves together, you may not be providing your side a lot of utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves ally, 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, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vladimir to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Vladimir and Graves synergy build consist of Void Staff, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Vladimir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Graves than with many other common item sets. In fact, Vladimir boasted an average winrate of 52.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Scorch, Triumph, and Last Stand runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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