Graves Build Guide by KamiKZ

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- I have been playing league of legends since season 5
- season 5: Riven/Irelia two trick, peak platinum 1
- season 6: Kha Zix One Trick Pony, 500 games, peak diamond 4
- season 7: Kha, Hecarim & skarner main Peak Diamond 2
- season 8: 50% winrate with Graves, 60 games peak master tier on EUW
- Season 9: 2x Grandmaster peaked 345 LP on EUW didn´t play Graves all that much
- Season 10: Challenger Graves & kha zix main
- Season 11: Master tier so far (February 2021)

Graves is a solid mid tier jungle pick but if you have good mechanics can easily be better and you can now actually carry on graves jungle again

Pros

A tier jungler
Always good no matter what your team comp is
Good healthy clear always full hp as long as you kite jungle camps properly
Good carry potential
Strong in soloQ
High damage
Fun champion - fun kit
One of the few ranged junglers that actually works
Good at 1v1
Insanly good at kiting
Good at taking scuttle

Cons

No cc
Brings nothing to a team wombo combo
Weak vs peel comps

Graves rune page #1: Fleet Footwork
Fleetfootwork is good with shieldbow graves since shieldbow will give you insane amount of healing and with fleet footwork on top you will get even more healing and slight movement speed buff

Triumph is good since if you kill someone on enemy team you will get hp back to keep yourself alive for even longer (Triumph is really good against burn after damage such as red buff, liandries, demonic embrace, ignite etc.)

Legend Alacrity is good with graves since his main source of damage will come from his auto attacks and with more attack speed you will be able to get more auto attacks off to heal from with your other runes and items

Coup De Grace is good with graves since you will do more damage to enemies that are below 40% hp which is great for your ulti that you usually will use at the end of your combo as a big execution damage

Magical Footwear is great for Graves since it allows you to get to your mythic item faster without having to worry about spending 300 gold on base boots

Future´s Market Just like the magical footwear with futures market you can get your mythic item (Eclipse) faster since you can buy with extra gold keep in mind that it will cost you 50 gold each time you go in debt so make sure you use your item lead to something proactive since otherwise you will just lose gold over time each time you go into debt.

Graves Rune Page #2: Dark Harvest


Dark Harvest Dark Harvest works great with lethality graves (Eclipse build) since it allows you to almost become a ranged assassin if/when you are far enough ahead

Sudden Impact is really good on Graves since it´s really easy to proc with Graves E which you will basically always use when it´s off cooldown so you can actually proc Sudden Impact multiple times in long extended fights or team fights

Eyeball Collection Eyeball Is good on Graves if you get ahead and start snowballing since each kill will give you more AD

Relentless Hunter Is the only viable option on Graves currently since Ravenous Hunter got nerfed, ultimate hunter isn´t that big on Graves and Ingenius Hunter is only good for your Eclipse item, but it won´t give that much lower cd on your eclipse proc, so we are basically left with Relentless Hunter which isn´t too bad on Graves since the more movementspeed we get the easier it will be to chase down people and AA

Triumph Triumph can be a clutch rune that will save in you clutch situations from Ignite, Liandries etc.

Legend Alacrity Is good on Graves since the more auto attacks you get off the lower cooldown your E will have which means you overall will just have more mobility and be more slippery

The best build currently for Graves is
Eclipse
The Collector
Lord Dominiks Regards
Infinity Edge
With either merc treads or plated steelcaps

Reason why this is currently the best Graves build is because with this build you get strong dueling power 1v1 with eclipse with the shield and the bonus % hp dmg as well as the mythic passive from eclipse gives you % armor pen which gives this build really good scaling power, on top of that you get 60% crit damage and you can basically kill everything, tanks with the armor pen, squshies with the lethality and bonus ad. Last but not least you have a little bit of healing from eclipse in this build as well as fleet footwork which gives you good sustain and if you accidently get outranged and go to low hp you can just heal off jungle camps or minions back to full hp and be ready for the next team fight without being forced to recall.

Only issue with this build is the fact that there are not many options for defensive items so it´s really important to position yourself well and not take too much damage before the team fights start.

Season 11 full clear on Graves

Start on red buff (no matter which side you are on)

Clear krugs afterwards (use e over the krug wall to save a few seconds on pathing)
You can smite krugs if you want for a faster clear or hold onto your smite for when you get to wolves

After Krugs go to your Raptors focus the big raptor with auto attacks and use Q on all the raptors

After Raptors go to Wolves, if you haven´t used smite yet, then smite wolves

After Wolves then go to blue and auto attack a couple of times while you kite the blue towards Gromp, then auto attack Gromp, and do blue + gromp at the same time and smite the Gromp to finish it off and then kite the blue buff down towards scuttle.

This is how you wanna clear on Graves preferably every game.

This clear is really hard to pull off so I suggest going into practice pool and practice it a few times since if you screw up the blue + gromp clear at the same time you will lose a lot of time on your pathing and lose a lot of tempo especially vs 6 camp full clearing junglers that are currently in the meta.

This means you won´t have smite for the scuttle crab, but you don´t need smite on Graves to kill scuttle since your passive will knock back the scuttle crab, which removes it´s shield, which makes it a lot easier to kill.

If enemy jungler comes to contest you on the scuttle look if you have prio on your nearby laners, if you have prio you can still go for the scuttle but play it slow, if you don´t have prio then let enemy jungler get the scuttle and you try and get the other scuttle.

After scuttle you can just reset or go back to your Krugs (The first normal camp that you cleared) and go for a back to back full clear, where you clear Krugs, Raptors, Wolves, Gromp and try and contest 3rd Scuttle or go for a gank.

You can pretty much clear all camps quite easily with graves as long as you kite them out properly and remember to split up the jungle camp a little bit so your passive auto attack can hit mutiple targets at once

Tips:
Always kite the jungle camps

Always auto a jungle camp once and then e immediately after your first auto attack to gain a stack on your E passive and gain an extra auto attack

Always kite towards the next jungle champ

Smite Krugs or Wolves


Your passive knocks back jungle camps which makes scuttle crab go from having 60 armor and magic recist to only be having 10 armor and magic recist which makes scuttle really easy to kill as Graves

A super important for graves jungle and his clearing is to stack up his E passive you do this by constantly doing damage this refreshes the current amount of stacks you have on your E passive and you gain another stack by using E it can be stacked up to 8 times

Each stack gives bonus armor

Try to gank laners who has cc since you don´t have any cc in your own kit except W which is little slow.

Try to gank when you have red buff, since red buff provides extra damage and a little slow on auto attacks aswell.

If your laner has no cc try to walk up behind the enemy and start auto attacking, you can start using your w on top of the enemy if needed. Wait with your until the enemy either uses their dash or flash and then E after them to always be in range to auto attack the enemy

Remember you can always finish your opponent with your R after they used flash

With this build you have a lot of damage and a lot of healing so the only way you can only die is if you get cc´ed and can´t auto attack anyone to heal up.

With this graves build you wanna play kind a like an ADC, in the backline behind your frontline but you still always wanna be in range to auto attack someone.

You wanna try and hit as many ranged champions with your W since if you smokescreen them they will have a really hard time doing damage while in the smokescreen so they will have to run out of the smokescreen first before they will start doing damage again.

You also wanna keep your E stacks up all the time for the extra armor in teamfights.
You do that by constantly auto attacking someone and using your E to get another stack.

You wanna use your ultimate to snipe someone in the enemy backline and blow them up.

You can use your Q on both frontline and backline, just use it on whoever you are in range for to be honest.

And then just kite the enemies around with your E W R and movementspeed from fleet footwork.

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