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.
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
The Graves Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Graves sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Mordekaiser. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Mordekaiser helps Graves perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Graves is paired with Mordekaiser, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Mordekaiser does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Mordekaiser on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Mordekaiser.
Additionally, when Graves plays with Mordekaiser on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Mordekaiser does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Mordekaiser is a pretty good ally for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, he raises their win rate by 1.4% to 51.9%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Graves and Mordekaiser that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Mordekaiser has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means you should be cautious when finding Mordekaiser teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Graves players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Mordekaiser together, you may not be providing your side much utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Mordekaiser ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to pair well with Mordekaiser during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Graves and Mordekaiser synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Mordekaiser than with many other common item sets. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when playing alongside Mordekaiser with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
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