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Hello Guys I am KamiKhaZix

And welcome to my Graves Guide, Graves is my second most played champion and I have 61% wr with him in challenger with 100+ games played.

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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: Grandmaster 400 LP
- Season 12: Challenger 1074 LP

Graves is a solid top tier jungle pick but only if you have good mechanics you can carry on graves jungle again

Pros

Strong soloQ jungler
Always good no matter what your team comp is
Very healthy clear always full hp as long as you kite jungle camps properly
Good carry potential
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
Insane scaling
Very flexible since you can go crit graves, tank graves, bruiser graves and lethality graves

Cons

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

Overheal is good since when you go fleet you go shieldbow and bloodthirster which procs overheal super easily and has great synergy

Legend Alacrity is good with graves since this build focuses on auto attacking a lot and getting constant stacks and resets on your so you can auto attack even more but if enemy has heavy cc you should go Tenacity instead of alacrity only go alacrity vs no cc or minimal cc

Last stand is good with graves since last stand will be procced when you use Goredrinker which means you will do more damage while on low hp with that bonus damage you will then hopefully be able to win the fight.

Zombie ward is great for Graves since we rush Umbral because we run zombie ward in our runes and umbral is a cheap legendary items which gives us early quick powerspike that we should abuse to play aggresive in enemy jungle

Treassure hunter Treassure hunterSince we play aggresive on Graves in the early game due to the fact that we are ranged we will go Treassure Hunter to snowball even harder whenever we get a kill

Optional:
You can go tenacity instead of alacrity if enemy team has a lot of cc
You can go last stand instead of coup de grace against enemy team comps that dive on top of you (example assassins)

You should go the fleet runes and build when playing against a lot of melee champions on enemy team and if the enemy doesn´t have a lot of cc or if you play against a tanky team comp.

There are many different builds for Graves

There is:
Crit Graves
Full lethality Graves
Tank Graves
Bruiser Graves

To see all builds I recommend using lolalytics: https://lolalytics.com/lol/graves/build/


This guide will focus on Bruiser Graves

The best build currently for Graves is what Vitality Bo/Zyb is running which is

Umbral Glaive
Goredrinker
Boots
Black Cleaver
Frozen Heart/Maw


You will start with green smite and sweeper without potions due to the fact that graves has such a healthy he clear he doesn´t need potion for his first clear.

Fleetfootwork will heal you the small amount of damage you take since you are ranged you just kite the camps while taking minimal damage.

By not going potions you save 150g which means you can get to your serrated dirk even faster at 950g rather than 1100g

This is a strategy that Bo/Zyb who plays for Vitality invented and he is currently rank 1 on EUW with over 70% win rate on Graves.

This guide is heavily inspired by Bo´s Graves playstyle and build.

Umbral glaive should be rushed because we run zombie ward in our runes and umbral is a cheap legendary items which gives us early quick powerspike that we should abuse to play aggresive in enemy jungle

Goredrinker should be bought second item because we rush Umbral with zombie ward and goredrinker is good for staying alive and since we stack ability haste in this build it´s not uncommon to use goredrinker 2-3 times in a team fight once ability haste has been stacked

Plated steelcaps vs full ad comps otherwise mercs always because we already get armor from graves e stacks

Black Cleaver 4th item pretty much always because the armor pen on Graves feels really nice on top of the ability haste which mainly will be used for being able to your E off cooldown each time you get 2 auto´s off

It will ofc also be nice with stacked ability haste for your Q and R but it´s mainly for your E resets

The 5th and 6th item are either Frozen Heart Maw or Chempunk Chainsword

Frozen heart against heavy ad/aa based champions
Maw against heavy ap/burst damage
Chempunk Chainsword if no one on your team has antiheal and enemy team has a lot of healing you have to buy it (typically supports in the current meta will get antiheal )

Season 13 clear on Graves

1. Start on red buff
2. Go to your Krugs
3. Go to your Raptors focus the big raptor with auto attacks and use Q on all the raptors
4. After Raptors go to Wolves, if you haven´t used smite yet, then smite wolves
5. After Wolves then go to your Gromp first and then blue

(Gromp first is important because Gromp has 2:15 respawn timer while blue has 5 min respawn timer)

After blue buff you go clear scuttle crab and then look to either gank, go double scuttle or simply reset.

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

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.

First back base depending on gold
700G = 2x Long Sword
1050 = 3x Long Sword
1100 = Serrated Dirk

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 of like a mid range ADC, in the backline behind your frontline but still in front of your full back line which would be your traditional caitlyn adc.
If you don´t have any frontline what so ever in your team comp you can either be the frontline yourself or you will have to find flanks from the sides or from behind.
Most important thing is that you always want to be in range to auto attack enemies.

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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Here are some useful Graves videos from my youtube channel that I know will help you become a better Graves player and jungler over all:

ALMOST PERFECT GRAVES GAME MASTER ELO EUW FULL LETH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNfZszU-84

HOW TO HAVE A PERFECT GAME AS JUNGLER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkLT2AhD2A&t


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