Zed with Graves
How to Synergize Zed and Graves
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Zed Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Graves
Tips for Playing as Zed with Graves
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Zed perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Graves, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Graves does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Graves on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Zed during teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Graves?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Graves is a very typical teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Zed and Graves that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Zed. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Graves comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Zed and Graves together, you probably will not be granting your team enough support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Zed in order to synergize with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Zed and Graves synergy build include Axiom Arc, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Zed incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 48.3% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Zed and Graves pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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