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Graves Build

Bot Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 443 gamesUpdated

47.5%win rate0.0%pick9.8%ban

Who counters Graves

How to build Graves

Plated Steelcaps→Lord Dominik's Regards→Infinity Edge→Bloodthirster

Plated Steelcaps → Lord Dominik's Regards → Infinity Edge → Bloodthirster

50.0% win rate 8% of games 28 games
RunesDominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure HunterPrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph32% of games
SpellsFlashBarrierFlash + Barrier53%
Skills
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End of the Line
24578
Smoke Screen
314151718
Quickdraw
19101213
Collateral Damage
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Graves build →

Best supports for Graves

Who Graves has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

47.5%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.1% over 1,059 gamesPatch 26.21: 47.5% over 443 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
9.8%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 2 last patch
40.1%under 22 min
48.4%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 35–40m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitB Graves+Camille champion portraitS CamillevsAphelios champion portraitB Aphelios+Milio champion portraitS Milio
0 / 4 / 2

Build

Gluttonous Greaves|Youmuu's Ghostblade→Immortal Shieldbow→Mortal Reminder→Infinity Edge

Spells & runes

FlashBarrier|

Skills

EQQWQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitB Graves+Zilean champion portraitS ZileanvsJhin champion portraitB Jhin+Sona champion portraitS Sona
9 / 9 / 7

Build

Mercury's Treads|Essence Reaver→The Collector→Lord Dominik's Regards→Mortal Reminder

Spells & runes

BarrierFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWWRW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitB Graves+Bard champion portraitS BardvsEzreal champion portraitB Ezreal+Karma champion portraitS Karma
1 / 5 / 3

Build

Gluttonous Greaves|Youmuu's Ghostblade→Lord Dominik's Regards

Spells & runes

FlashBarrier|

Skills

EQQWQRQEQEREEWW

Runes

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

Most popular 50.0% win rate · 32% of games · 96 games
DominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
PrecisionLegend: AlacrityTriumph
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 51.3% win rate · 13% of games · 39 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
pickwin
  • FlashBarrierFlash + Barrier53%45.9%244 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite14%52.4%63 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps32%Berserker's Greaves18%Boots17%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 46.1% win rate

Graves build

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

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Graves Bot is at 462 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Graves →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 462 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
31% · 46.1% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
17% · 43.8% win rate
BootsBoots
16% · 41.9% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
15% · 56.7% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
14% · 54.0% win rate
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. The best and worst supports are ranked the same way, against Graves's average instead of 50%.

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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