Shaco with Graves
How to Synergize Shaco and Graves
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Shaco Graves Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Graves
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Graves
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco 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 Shaco perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Graves, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This could signal that Graves supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played alongside Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Graves on the same side, he typically takes much less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Graves
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Graves is a good teammate for Shaco. By locking into the same side as Shaco, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Shaco and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Graves comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Shaco players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Shaco and Graves together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Graves ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco to pair well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Shaco and Graves synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Shaco and Graves pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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