Hey guys, my name is Myga or Coach Myga on some platforms. I have been playing league since S5 & have been Masters/Grandmasters since S7, peaking Challenger (Currently Challenger, rank 40). I play all roles above Masters level, which gives me a unique perspective when making these guides. I've also been coaching consistently since 2020 & making youtube guides for a few years now, mostly for Jungle.

This guide should be very useful for beginner players, I will also try to keep the build updated for every patch so that if you are just checking back to this guide for the build you will be in the know!

If you would like coaching from me, you can join my coaching program here: https://coachmyga.com/

Pros
- Strong SoloQueue Jungler due to his high mobility which leads to outplay potential & the amount of pressure and chaos he is able to generate with invades and duels.
- Graves is fairly versatile and will fit into most team comps pretty well in S15, he struggles sometimes verse enemy team compositions that are very long range and have lots of slows, however Swifties and Swiftmarch can reduce the pain from this. Graves is slightly less versatile than previous seasons due to only one build with a few variations being good currently.
- Graves Jungle has high potential to carry every game if you perform well as an individual, which makes him an excellent jungler for one tricks, or people who like to focus on mastering a small champion pool, but to an extremely high level.
- Graves Jungle is a very fun champion due to the above mentioned things, and Graves Jungle has a very high skill ceiling, which makes mastering him very rewarding.


ConsCons
- Graves Jungle doesn't have any hard Crowd Control, so you are relying on red buff slows & your W (smokescreen) for slow & vision denial. Mastering when to use smokescreen for slows, or instead save for vision denial is something that will be very important as you climb on Graves Jungle.
- High peel team compositions can be hard, Sperants Fang sucks now.
- Long ranged team compositions can also be hard, Swifties can help with this.
- Has a blockable Auto Attack. Tanks can body block your Auto's, so can minions & towers. This can create unique scenarios where the enemies can outplay you if you don't know what you are doing.
- Graves Jungle has a fairly unique playstyle, which takes time to adjust too, and much more time to excel at.

Graves Jungle Pathing, like most champions at the moment is basically just full clear from one quadrant to the next. This is what most players are doing, but this is not optimal always, so I will discuss some times where you can make changes to get advantages over your enemies!

Some things to note about clearing on Graves Jungle first though. Grit stacks are important, not just because they give you armour, but because that armour allows your jungle pet to do more damage per tick, which allows you to clear faster. This means keeping your stacks is more important now!

Graves Jungle can also do raptors start on both sides, for Raptors start, I like to take Q & then focus the large raptor with my Auto attacks, and finish the camp with second Q. In most situations you are doing this, you would then go Krugs, Red, and either ganks or continue clear. The advantage of this clear is your Raptors & Krugs respawn faster, which can match the respawn timer for other raptors start champions (lilla, Fiddlesticks, Rammus, etc).

The disadvantage of raptors start happens in this scenario; You start raptors, go Krugs, red, Wolves, Blue, Gromp & then gank top. If this gank takes too long, you clear too slowly, or waste time somewhere, the enemy jungler can take your raptors on spawn, then reset into their raptors Krugs & have a huge lead over you at Void Grubs spawn. So be careful when doing this clear on Graves Jungle vs other champions that clear fast!

I will be releasing a full clearing guide for Graves Jungle soon on my youtube channel, and will also post it here, going into more depth on topics that I think are best explained in video format.

Coming Soon!

Early Game
You want to try and Jungle as efficiently as possible in terms of (Gold & XP) whilst also trying to utilize your early game & mobility to priority to create pressure. You win a lot of early game Jungle match ups and have the ability to outplay some of the harder ones.

Mid Game
In the Mid game you will hopefully be able to leverage the Gold & XP leads you were able to generate in the Early game. You'll start to look for more opportunities to force skirmishes or gank lanes in the mid game if you are ahead. If you are behind, you want to do your best to stall out the game and generate as much XP & Gold per minute as possible.

Late Game
In the late game you want to play based on your build. If you are playing the Lethality build you can look to make picks & one shot players. You can also try and approach team fights from Behind (Flanking), or from the side of a Skirmish.

In the late game if you're playing the bruiser builsd. You can play front to back or approach via the side on a fight. You want to make sure you have started stacking up your Grit stacks before heading in.

These are very specific. You need to assess every game & each team comp to figure out what the actual best play is. If you struggle doing this, you can watch other high elo players, look into coaching or watch your VODs to see what you did wrong. You can then correct that in the future.

I have a coaching program that teaches you exactly what you need to do differently in your games to start carrying! https://coachmyga.com/

Be aware you DO NOT need to purchase skins with Riot Games & This will not greatly improve your skills on Graves.

If you do use the S tier skins, these will make it harder to play in the future with the skins that are not as good. You will sometimes fail clean E movements.

Also if you are wanting to make a smurf account & have the best skin, you can buy the bundle deal "Jungle Starter Pack". This can be found in the League of Legends Client Store > Champions Tab > Bundles Tab.

This will give you extremely good value, for 650 RP you will get Graves, Crime City Graves, Vi, Neon Strike Vi, Lee Sin, Pool Party Lee Sin & a 14 day XP boost.

If you are hand leveling your smurf, you can do that faster with a 14 day XP boost & also purchasing a standalone XP boost for Wins.

Enjoy!

If you want access to even more content that will help you improve at Graves & jungling as a whole you can follow me on other socials where I post exclusive content!
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Thank you all for the support & I look forward to helping and coaching many new players learn League of Legends & improve their Graves Jungle Gameplay.