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Graves champion portrait

Graves Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 1,695 gamesUpdated

45.8%win rate0.1%pick9.8%ban

Who counters Graves

How to build Graves

Plated Steelcaps→Essence Reaver→Lord Dominik's Regards→Infinity Edge

Plated Steelcaps → Essence Reaver → Lord Dominik's Regards → Infinity Edge

46.7% win rate 9% of games 105 games
RunesPrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de GraceInspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear25% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite57%
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 →
45.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 45.7% over 3,673 gamesPatch 26.21: 45.8% over 1,695 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
43.1%at Emerald+
0.1%pick rate
9.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
39.4%under 22 min
49.1%over 32 min

Graves Top gets worse as the elo rises. 45.8% across Silver and above, but 43.1% once you look at Emerald and up. Sites that only sample high elo will show you the second number. Both are real; which one applies depends on the games you are actually playing.

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.

Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitT GravesvsAatrox champion portraitT Aatrox
2 / 5 / 9

Build

Boots|The Collector→Youmuu's Ghostblade

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEEREW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitT GravesvsJayce champion portraitT Jayce
8 / 8 / 3

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Essence Reaver→The Collector→Mortal Reminder

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EQQWQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Graves champion portraitT GravesvsDarius champion portraitT Darius
9 / 11 / 5

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Essence Reaver→Serpent's Fang→The Collector→Lord Dominik's Regards

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEQWQRQEQEREEWWRWW

Runes

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

Most popular 42.8% win rate · 25% of games · 285 games
PrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
InspirationCosmic InsightMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 43.0% win rate · 20% of games · 230 games
PrecisionFleet FootworkTriumphLegend: AlacrityCoup de Grace
DominationSixth SenseTreasure Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite57%47.0%986 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport29%44.1%506 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps47%Mercury's Treads20%Gluttonous Greaves11%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 46.2% win rate

Graves build

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

  1. Essence Reaver1st
  2. The Collector2nd
  3. Lord Dominik's Regards3rd
3% of games that reach a third item take this path52.9% win rate34 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Graves →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,707 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
46% · 46.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
20% · 49.7% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
10% · 54.2% win rate
Berserker's GreavesBerserker's Greaves
6% · 42.3% win rate
BootsBoots
6% · 29.1% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
5% · 50.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Essence Reaver›The Collector+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 33.3% win rate · 36 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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