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Graves
Patch 16.2.1
JungleDifficulty
Medium
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Aggressively counter-jungle to put the enemy jungler behind. Use your gold lead to become a mid-game monster that can 2-shot squishies and out-tank physical damage threats.
Playstyle
Aggressive carry jungler who focuses on power-farming, invading, and snowballing gold leads. You function like a ranged bruiser who thrives in short-range skirmishes.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Healthy and fast jungle clear because knocks back monsters
- +High physical durability due to Armor stacks from
- +Massive burst potential when using terrain with
- + is one of the strongest utility basic abilities in the game for disrupting ADCs and casters
Weaknesses
- -Short range forces you to get dangerously close to targets for maximum damage
- -Reload mechanic of creates predictable windows where you cannot deal damage
- -Lacks hard crowd control, making it difficult to gank lanes without setup from allies
- -Damage from can be blocked by minions, towers, or frontline tanks
Abilities
You have 2 shells and must reload. Each attack fires 4 bullets in a cone. If you are closer, more bullets hit for more damage. Attacks knock back non-champions—use this to kite jungle camps without taking damage.
Fires a shell that returns after 1 second. If the shell hits a wall, it explodes instantly. Always aim this at terrain to guarantee the second half of the damage lands immediately.
Creates a smoke cloud that limits enemy vision and slows them. Drop this on the enemy backline to prevent them from targeting your team, or use it to slow a fleeing target.
A dash that reloads one shell and grants True Grit (Armor and Magic Resist). Dashing toward an enemy champion gives 2 stacks instead of 1. Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of this ability.
Fires a massive shell that deals huge damage and knocks you backward. Use the knockback to escape over walls or to finish off low-health targets from a distance. The cone damage behind the primary target is significant in teamfights.
Teamfight Role
Front-to-Back Skirmisher
Start by attacking the closest target to stack Armor with . Once you have stacks and the enemy has used key cooldowns, use to blind the backline and dive in to burst them down.
If your team has no frontline, you must play as a peeler, using and to zone enemies away from your primary carries.
Combos
The Basic Reload
Auto -> Auto -> -> Auto
Standard high-DPS rotation. You use your two shells, then to instantly reload one more shell and keep the pressure up.
Instant Burst
(at wall) -> (toward enemy) -> Auto ->
Use this when an enemy is near a wall. The explodes instantly, and the provides the finishing blow while pushing you back to safety.
The Animation Cancel
->
Casting immediately after cancels the startup animation of the shell, making your burst much faster.
Vision Denial Engage
-> -> Auto ->
Lead with so the enemy can't see you coming. Use to close the gap and land a point-blank auto followed by a for maximum damage.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 2 | With and , you can win almost any 1v1 jungle invade if you catch the enemy at a camp. |
| Level 6 | adds massive execution damage and mobility, making your ganks much more lethal. |
| Level 9 | Max rank allows you to one-shot caster minions and clear jungle camps instantly. |
| Level 13 | Max rank provides enormous amounts of Armor, making you nearly unkillable for AD champions in extended fights. |
Tips & Tricks
- •You can use the knockback from to jump over thin walls—stand with your back to the wall and fire.
- •Always kiting jungle camps: knockback plus resets means you should finish your clear with nearly full HP.
- • does not provide much damage; use it for the Nearsight effect to stop an enemy ADC from auto-attacking your team.
- •Dashing toward an enemy with gives double stacks of True Grit. Always dash forward if you are sure you can win the trade.
- •Your bullets spread. To hit a tower for max damage, you must stand as close as possible so all bullets connect.
- •If you are about to lose your stacks, auto-attack a minion or monster once to refresh the entire duration.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Fighting inside a large minion wave→Your pellets will hit the minions instead of the enemy champion, losing you 80% of your damage.
- ✕Using while you still have 2 shells→You waste the free reload mechanic of , resulting in lower total DPS.
- ✕Ignoring the back-half of →The return damage of is where most of the power is. If you miss it, you likely won't get the kill.
- ✕Using too early in a fight→The knockback pushes you away from the target, making it impossible to follow up with autos.
- ✕Not stacking before a major fight→You enter the fight with base resistances and get blown up before you can get your True Grit stacks high enough.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached