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Graves Build Guide by Dorom

(11.9) Dead man walkin'

Updated on May 6, 2021

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Runes: Full heal (Shieldbow)

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Precision

Fleet Footwork

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Coup de Grace

Domination

Taste of Blood

Ravenous Hunter

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist

Precision

Fleet Footwork

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Coup de Grace

Resolve

Bone Plating

Revitalize

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist

Precision

Press the Attack

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Coup de Grace

Sorcery

Absolute Focus

Gathering Storm

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist

Sorcery

Phase Rush

Nimbus Cloak

Celerity

Gathering Storm

Precision

Triumph

Legend: Alacrity

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10% Tenacity/Slow Resist

Spells:

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Standard runes

Flash

Ignite

Defensive runes

Exhaust

Flash

Very defensive runes

Flash

Teleport

Against perma CC

Cleanse

Flash

Items

Crit build backs

First back (700 or 1100 gold)

Long Sword 2

Berserker's Greaves

Second back (950 gold)

Noonquiver

Long Sword

Crit Graves (Standard)

Shieldbow (Against burst)

Berserker's Greaves

Immortal Shieldbow

The Collector

Bloodthirster

Infinity Edge

Lord Dominik's Regards

Galeforce (Against mobile champions, or if you're feelin' like flying)

Berserker's Greaves

Galeforce

The Collector

Infinity Edge

Bloodthirster

Lord Dominik's Regards

Kraken Slayer (Against tanks)

Berserker's Greaves

Kraken Slayer

The Collector

Infinity Edge

Bloodthirster

Lord Dominik's Regards

Lethality build backs

First back (700 or 1100)

Long Sword 2

Berserker's Greaves

Second back (400 or 750)

Serrated Dirk 2

Long Sword

Lethality Graves (viable)

Eclipse

Berserker's Greaves

Eclipse

The Collector

Bloodthirster

Infinity Edge

Serpent's Fang

Duskblade (For fun)

Berserker's Greaves

Duskblade of Draktharr

The Collector

Bloodthirster

Infinity Edge

Lord Dominik's Regards

Please don't do this in ranked...

Berserker's Greaves

Prowler's Claw

The Collector

Edge of Night

Sanguine Blade

Youmuu's Ghostblade

Ability Order End of the line.

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Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

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Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Viktor

Extreme

This champion was designed to piss players off, his extreme poke and mobility (if he has phase rush) is insanely bullshit. Try to fight him early levels, after 9 you basically can't stay in the lane.

Zed

Extreme

Zed is a tough match-up for Graves since he is much more mobile and hard to keep up with, and does stupid amounts of damage. Take defensive runes and probably exhaust.

Fizz

Extreme

Fizz is super annoying and especially against Graves. If you try to W or Q him, he just E's and E's again next to you to take away a third of your health and instantly proc his Electrocute with an auto + auto reset on W, take exhaust and defensive runes.

Twisted Fate

Minor

Payback time, Fate.

Gangplank

Even

The Saltwater scourge himself isn't that bad of a match-up for Graves, just try to dodge his barrels (or disarm them by shooting at them when the second tick is about to end, you can see this by the white circle going around it), then try to shoot him down. Once he gets sheen though that's a whole different story, if he hits a barrel on you with Sheen your best bet is to W him and try to run away.

Talon

Extreme

Talon can just jump you and instantly take all of your health away just with W Q auto, how stupid is that? Take defensive runes and exhaust.

Aurelion Sol

Tiny

Just run him down the second he does anything really.

Yasuo

Tiny

Graves destroys Yasuo, his only way to protect himself from you is his windwall which he gets on level 3, so the smartest thing to do is to just fight him pre-3 since he's basically free at that moment, then try to bait out his windwall after 3 to continue bullying him, late game you still win.

Yone

Minor

Yone is similiar to Yasuo but a little harder of a match-up, he has no windwall though so levels pre-6 he's freelo.

Katarina

Major

Katarina is a MANAGABLE match-up, not very easy though. You have to play smart and try to stay away from her daggers and poke her early, since that's probably her weakest phase. After a few items you HAVE TO have Shieldbow, or she just one shots you immediately and you can't do anything.

Malphite

Extreme

Malphite straight up counters Graves, if you go Kraken, he one shots you, if you build Shieldbow, you don't do damage to him, and if you build Galeforce you don't heal OR do damage to him, so really your best bet is to just either beg for swap or dodge the game vs this guy.

Kassadin

Minor

Early game you can get easily fed off of him, in late he becomes a monster but if you play it smart and have Shieldbow, it's still a fair fight.

Vladimir

Extreme

Why are you not banning Vladimir though?

Sylas

Extreme

Sylas is another tumorous champion for mid lane, he outdamages, outsustains, outdashes you and can steal your ultimate, so he will take your only real dash and use it against you lol, probably dodge the game.

Galio

Minor

You beat Galio early, since he's strong only against AP champions. Late game he becomes a bit more tanky and does quite a lot of damage but he's still very killable.

Malzahar

Major

Malzahar is unfun to play against, he summons his void things, you just run or you're dead. The only thing you can really do against a Malzahar is either hard push the wave and roam or just freeze for your jungler to come and gank, get rid of his shield first though.