Graves with Sona
How to Synergize Graves and Sona
based on 4,181 Graves with Sona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Graves Sona Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Sona Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Sona
Tips for Playing as Graves with Sona
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.
Advice to Understand How Sona Will Play
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Graves Sona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sona as Graves in LoL
The Graves Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Sona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sona helps Graves perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Sona, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Sona helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Sona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Sona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sona.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Sona on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sona does a decent job of covering Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Sona?
There is no perfect companion for Graves that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Sona is a good companion for Graves. By being on the same team as Graves, she raises their win rate by 1.1% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important synergy between Graves and Sona that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Sona has a greater difficulty than Graves. That means Graves players should be very careful when arranging Sona allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Graves and Sona together, you probably will not be giving your side much tankyness. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Sona teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Graves to work well with Sona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Graves and Sona synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Hubris. When Graves combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Sona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Graves had an average winrate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Graves players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Graves and Sona pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Sona with Graves are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.