Graves Build, Runes, Abilities, & Matchups

In League of Legends Wild Rift Graves is a Marksman / Fighter champion that highly play in Jungle. View Graves Best builds, Runes, Matchups, and more here.

Graves Build Guide

Full Build

Wild Rift Items: Black Cleaver | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBlack CleaverWild Rift Items: Phantom Dancer | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerPhantom DancerWild Rift Items: Gluttonous Greaves | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGluttonous Greaves
Wild Rift Items: Death Dance | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerDeaths DanceWild Rift Items: Bloodthirster | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBloodthirsterWild Rift Items: Guardian Angel | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGuardian Angel

In Wild Rift Graves build items that increase Physical damage, Armor penetration, and Health point so he can be the main Jungler damage dealer.

Enchantment: Wild Rift Items: Quicksilver Sash Enchant | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerQuicksilver is an item that Graves should build.

Core Items

Wild Rift Items: Black Cleaver | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBlack CleaverWild Rift Items: Phantom Dancer | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerPhantom DancerWild Rift Items: Gluttonous Greaves | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGluttonous Greaves

Graves core items are Black Cleaver, Phantom Dancer, and Gluttonous Greaves.

The core items increase Attack damage, Attack speed, and Physical vamp.

Other Options

Wild Rift Items: Statikk Shiv | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerStatikk ShivWild Rift Items: Maw of Malmortius | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerMaw of MalmortiusWild Rift Items: Blade of the Ruined King | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBlade of the Ruined King
Wild Rift Items: Infinity Edge | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerInfinity EdgeWild Rift Items: Rapid Firecannon | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerRapid FirecannonWild Rift Items: Mortal Reminder | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerMortal Reminder

Down below are different techniques to build on Graves against enemy match ups.

Build Vs Fighter

Wild Rift Items: Black Cleaver | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBlack CleaverWild Rift Items: Phantom Dancer | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerPhantom DancerWild Rift Items: Gluttonous Greaves | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGluttonous Greaves
Wild Rift Items: Infinity Edge | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerInfinity EdgeWild Rift Items: Death Dance | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerDeaths DanceWild Rift Items: Bloodthirster | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBloodthirster

Build Wild Rift Items: Infinity Edge | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Infinity Edge to get extra damage and critical rate.

Build Wild Rift Items: Bloodthirster | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Bloodthirster to get Physical vamp and shied when you have full health.

Build Vs Assassin

Wild Rift Items: Black Cleaver | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBlack CleaverWild Rift Items: Phantom Dancer | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerPhantom DancerWild Rift Items: Gluttonous Greaves | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGluttonous Greaves
Wild Rift Items: Death Dance | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerDeaths DanceWild Rift Items: Rapid Firecannon | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerRapid FirecannonWild Rift Items: Guardian Angel | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGuardian Angel

Build Wild Rift Items: Rapid Firecannon | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Rapid Firecannon to get extra attack range, critical rate, and attack speed.

Build Wild Rift Items: Guardian Angel | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Guardian Angel to get revives at death.

Build Vs Mage

Wild Rift Items: Black Cleaver | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBlack CleaverWild Rift Items: Phantom Dancer | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerPhantom DancerWild Rift Items: Gluttonous Greaves | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGluttonous Greaves
Wild Rift Items: Maw of Malmortius | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerMaw of MalmortiusWild Rift Items: Infinity Edge | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerInfinity EdgeWild Rift Items: Guardian Angel | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGuardian Angel

Build Wild Rift Items: Maw of Malmortius | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Maw of Malmortius to get magic resist and gain shield when health are below 35%.

Build Wild Rift Items: Guardian Angel | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Guardian Angel to survive high damage burst by mage combo skills.

Build Wild Rift Items: Stasis Enchant | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Stasis Enchant to survive mage combo skills.

Build Vs Tank

Wild Rift Items: Black Cleaver | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBlack CleaverWild Rift Items: Phantom Dancer | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerPhantom DancerWild Rift Items: Gluttonous Greaves | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGluttonous Greaves
Wild Rift Items: Infinity Edge | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerInfinity EdgeWild Rift Items: Mortal Reminder | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerMortal ReminderWild Rift Items: Guardian Angel | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGuardian Angel

Build Wild Rift Items: Mortal Reminder | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Mortal Reminder to get Armor penetration, and effectively attack tank champions.

Graves Jungle Marksman

Wild Rift Items: Blade of the Ruined King | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerBlade of the Ruined KingWild Rift Items: Statikk Shiv | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerStatikk ShivWild Rift Items: Gluttonous Greaves | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGluttonous Greaves
Wild Rift Items: Infinity Edge | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerInfinity EdgeWild Rift Items: Mortal Reminder | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerMortal ReminderWild Rift Items: Mortal Reminder | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerMortal Reminder

Recommend in-game build.

Graves Runes

The Best Wild Rift Graves runes are Conqueror keystone, with Brutal, Backbone, and Pack Hunter.

Wild Rift Rune: Conqueror - zilliongamerConquerorGain stacks of Adaptive Force when hitting a champion with separate attacks or abilities. Stacks up to 5 times. When fully stacks deal bonus adaptive damage to champions. (Adaptive)
Wild Rift Rune: Brutal - zilliongamerBrutalGain AD/AP and penetration. (Adaptive)
Wild Rift Rune: Backbone - zilliongamerBackboneGain bonus AR or MR, based on stat you have less of.
Wild Rift Rune: Pack Hunter - zilliongamerPack HunterGain MS while near allies. For each unique ally you participate in a takedown with, you both gain bonus gold.

Summoner Spells

Wild Rift Summoner Spell: Flash - zilliongamerFlashTeleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Wild Rift Summoner Spell: Smite - zilliongamerSmiteDeal true damage to a large or epic monster or minion. Simiting monsters restores Health. Slaying 4 large monsters upgrades Smite to Chilling Smite or Challenging Smite which can target enemy champions.

Graves Abilities Guide

Skill Details

Graves abilities: New Destiny | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerNew Destiny

Graves' shotgun has some unique properties:

Double Barrel: Graves must reload when he runes out of ammo. Attack speed reduces reload time slightly, but reduces time between attacks dramatically.

12 Gauge: Attacks fire 4 bullets. Units hit take 72% physical damage + 24% for additional bullets. Critical strikes fire 6 bullets and increase each bullet's damage by 40%. Structure only take 75% damage.

Buckshot: Bullets cannot pass through enemy units. Non-champions struck by multiple bullets are knocked back slightly.

Graves abilities: End of the Line | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerEnd of the Line

Fires a power round that deals 45 physical damage and then detonates after 1.5s to deal an additional 85 physical damage.

Detonantes in 0.25s if the round hits terrain.

Cooldown: 12 / 11 / 10 / 9

Mana Cost: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

Graves abilities: Smoke Screen | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerSmoke Screen

Throws a canister that creates a cloud of smoke for 4 seconds. Enemies within the smoke cannot see outside of it.

Enemies caught the initial impact take 60 magic damage and slowed by 50% for 0.5 seconds.

Cooldown: 20 / 18 / 16 / 14

Mana Cost: 75 / 80 / 85 / 90

Graves abilities: Quickdraw | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerQuickdraw

Dashes in a direction, reloading one shell and granting True Grit for 4 seconds. True grit grants 4 Armor and refreshes when damaging non-minions.

Cooldown: 15 / 14 / 13 / 12

Mana Cost: 40

Graves abilities: Collateral Damage | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerCollateral Damage

Fires an explosive shell that deals 250 physical damage and knocks Graves back from recoil. The shell explodes upon hitting an enemy champion or reaching the end of its range, dealing 200 physical damage in a cone.

Cooldown: 90 / 70 / 50

Mana Cost: 100

Skill Orders

Graves abilities: End of the Line | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerEnd of the LineGraves abilities: Smoke Screen | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerSmoke ScreenGraves abilities: Quickdraw | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerQuickdrawGraves abilities: Collateral Damage | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerCollateral Damage
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71511 

Skill Combos

1. Auto Attack > Auto Attack > Graves abilities: Quickdraw | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Quickdraw > Graves abilities: End of the Line | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer End of the Line > Auto Attack.

2. Auto Attack > Auto Attack > Graves abilities: Quickdraw | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Quickdraw > Graves abilities: Collateral Damage | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Collateral Damage. 

3. Auto Attack > Auto Attack > Graves abilities: Quickdraw | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Quickdraw > Graves abilities: Smoke Screen | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Smoking Screen.

Graves Matchups

Graves is Good Against
Amumu Build | Wild Rift - zilliongamerAmumuYour Graves abilities: Quickdraw | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Quickdraw can dodge Amumu Amumu abilities: Bandage Toss | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Bandage toss. Amumu will try to retreat once he miss the hookshot. You can also use Graves abilities: Smoke Screen | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Smoking Screen on your position to blind him as well.
Gragas Build | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerGragasYou have a better chance of winning fight against Gragas in the early game, you have better camp clearing time and can output more damage. You can also use Graves abilities: Quickdraw | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Quickdraw to dodge his Gragas abilities: Barrel Roll | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Barrel Roll as well.
Wild Rift Evelynn build - zilliongamerEvelynnEvelynn is very squishy against you, when you get Evelynn Wild Rift Abilities: Allure - zilliongamer Allure try to dodge her Evelynn Wild Rift Abilities: Whiplash - zilliongamer Whiplash. If she is losing fight against you and wanted to Ult back to run, try to use Quickdraw and Collateral Damage to finish her.
Lee Sin Build | Wild Rift - zilliongamerLee SinLee Sin heavily relied on Lee Sin abilities: Sonic Wave | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Sonic wave to connect his full combo, you can easily counter him with your Graves abilities: Smoke Screen | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Smoke screen and disable him from fighting you.
Graves Hard Counters
Olaf Build | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerOlafWhen Olaf connect is Olaf abilities: Undertow | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Undertow with you, it is hard to run away from him, even with your Graves abilities: Quickdraw | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Quickdraw. When Olaf activate Olaf abilities: Ragnarok | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Ragnarok it is very hard to fight against him.
Master Yi Build | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerMaster YiMaster Yi has faster attack speed and better damage when fighting against Graves, he also has higher mobility when he has his Master Yi abilities: Highlander | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Ultimate. Master Yi can use is Master Yi abilities: Alpha Strike | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Alpha Strike to dodge your Smoke screen.
Vi Build | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerViVi can disable Graves very hard during team fight. Her Vi abilities: Assault and Battery | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Ultimate can completely disengage Graves from participating in team fight. When Graves try to run away, Vi can also use Vi abilities: Vault Breaker | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Vault Breaker to catch him as well.
Xin Zhao Build | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerXin ZhaoXin Zhao has very high damage, fast monster clearing camp and can fight 1vs1 against almost every champions. He can use Xin Zhao abilities: Audacious Charge | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Audacious Charge to follow up with your Quickdraw and knock you up with his Xin Zhao abilities: Three Talon Strike | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Three Talon Strike.
Jarvan IV Build | Wild Rift - zilliongamerJarvan IVJarvan IV Jarvan IV abilities: Demacian Standard | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Demacian Standard combo with Jarvan IV abilities: Dragon Strike | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Dragon Strike is lethal against you. His Jarvan IV abilities: Golden Aegis | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Golden Aegis is also a good defensive ability against Graves as well.
Shyvana Build | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamerShyvanaShyvanaShyvana abilities: Dragons Descent | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Dragons Descent and Shyvana abilities: Flame Breath | League of Legends Wild Rift - zilliongamer Flame Breath combo is very lethal against you. 

Graves Pros and Cons

Pros
1. Graves can clear monster camp fast.
2. Can output very high damage with his abilities.
Cons
1. Is weak in early game phase.
2. Difficult to master the champion.

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