Graves with Zac
How to Synergize Graves and Zac
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Graves Zac Synergy Summary
Best Graves vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Zac
Tips for Playing as Graves with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Graves Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Graves in LoL
The Graves Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zac helps Graves perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves tries to synergize with Zac, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Zac provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played with Zac 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 Zac.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Zac on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Zac does a decent job of covering Graves during teamfights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Zac?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Graves that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Zac is a top-tier ally for Graves. By being on the same side as Graves, he increases their win rate by 3.2% to 53.7%. This shows that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Graves and Zac that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Zac has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you need to be careful when arranging Zac allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Graves players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Graves and Zac together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zac ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Graves in order to work well with Zac during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Graves and Zac synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zac than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 53.7% helping carry Zac with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.7% winrate overall.
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