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Graves Build

Jungle Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 96,834 gamesUpdated

50.0%win rate4.3%pick9.8%ban

Who counters Graves

Every Jungle matchup for Graves, ranked →

How to build Graves

Plated Steelcaps→Hubris→The Collector→Lord Dominik's Regards

Plated Steelcaps → Hubris → The Collector → Lord Dominik's Regards

47.2% win rate 14% of games 10,327 games
RunesDominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure HunterPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph52% of games
SpellsFlashSmiteFlash + Smite100%
Skills
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End of the Line
24578
Smoke Screen
314151718
Quickdraw
19101213
Collateral Damage
61116
StartMosstomper SeedlingHealth PotionMosstomper Seedling, Health Potion
Full Graves build →
50.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.7% over 230,161 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.0% over 96,834 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
49.7%at Emerald+
4.3%pick rate
9.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
48.7%under 22 min
51.0%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitJ GravesvsBel'Veth champion portraitJ Bel'Veth
5 / 1 / 4

Build

Mosstomper SeedlingMercury's Treads|Umbral Glaive→The Collector

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQERE
Win 15–20m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitJ GravesvsShaco champion portraitJ Shaco
10 / 1 / 3

Build

Scorchclaw PupBoots|Youmuu's Ghostblade→The Collector

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQER
Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitJ GravesvsIvern champion portraitJ Ivern
6 / 3 / 7

Build

Scorchclaw PupBoots|Youmuu's Ghostblade→Serpent's Fang→The Collector

Spells & runes

SmiteFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWWR

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.0% win rate · 52% of games · 50,022 games
DominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.1% win rate · 11% of games · 10,726 games
PrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite — 100% of games, 50.0% win rate. No real variation.

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Plated Steelcaps44%Mercury's Treads30%Boots13%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 50.3% win rate
Jungle pet
Scorchclaw Pup80%
8 of 10 recent games started Scorchclaw Pup

Graves build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. The Collector1st
  2. Hubris2nd
  3. Lord Dominik's Regards3rd
15% of games that reach a third item take this path54.4% win rate11,534 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Graves →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 97,953 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
44% · 50.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
30% · 50.8% win rate
BootsBoots
13% · 43.8% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
4% · 57.9% win rate
No bootsNo boots
4% · 55.5% win rate
Slightly Magical FootwearSlightly Magical Footwear
3% · 44.3% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. The Collector›Hubris›Lord Dominik's Regards+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 46.2% win rate · 2,412 games
  2. The Collector›Hubris+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 31.7% win rate · 2,402 games
  3. The Collector›Hubris+Boots2% of games · 38.4% win rate · 1,663 games
  4. Hubris+Boots2% of games · 34.0% win rate · 1,559 games
  5. The Collector›Hubris›Lord Dominik's Regards+Mercury's Treads2% of games · 48.0% win rate · 1,512 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Graves against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Graves's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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