r/GravesMains

Just got an idea, in the last update Graves got her sapping ability taken from the hand. Which makes sense, because a character with that much area denial and push ability shouldn’t also be able to hold her own in a 1v1 especially considering that she doesn’t have to aim to proc ‘on hit’ effects. But I think I may have a better idea that fits her theme and also makes for a great gameplay loop.

What if, the sapping ability does belong to the hand seeing as it’s obviously a beam of necrotic energy. But initially, it only stacks spirit resistance steal. The second effect, could be that, if you kill an enemy while they had full stacks of resistance stolen, you then get a boost to your SPIRIT POWER.

The gameplay then centers around deciding when to get in range and take a fight when you think you could get full stacks and kill. You would look to pick off weaker opponents who do spirit damage (probably like a Rem). That way, taking a fight with certain characters (gun characters) might still spell doom, instead of gaining sustain on everybody while also being one of the most effective lane pushers and crowd control characters in the game.

If you play Graves or have an opinion at all, go ahead and say so using the poll.

I was thinking maybe, the spirit power part of the ability would be could be its first upgrade, and subsequent ones would changes the scaling of it all, maybe it has a timer, the buff only stays for so long, or maybe only applies to your next borrowed decree, so you know your next one would be especially important. I dunno

As for what changes the rest of her kit would need to facilitate this being a good idea. Go ahead and comment what you think upgrades would look like in a world where this was implemented.

I’d also love to hear how you would build her if this happened, and how you’d play.

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I’m a Diamond mid main, but I’ve been grinding jungle on an alt account recently and I’m currently Plat 1. I picked up Graves on the jungle account and love his greedy carry playstyle: power farming, scaling hard, and being able to stat-check people once ahead.

The issue is that in a lot of the games I lose, I’m still personally ahead, which makes me think my itemization is probably wrong. my entire time playing Graves, I’ve defaulted to: Hubris, Collector, LDR, Infinity Edge. Defensives sprinkled in after collector if im ahead or they are full ad/ap

But after checking onetricks.gg, I noticed IE is way less popular than I expected, so now I’m wondering if I’ve been building suboptimally the whole time. when do i go which items?!?!?!

I feel like he used to be pretty good into tanks. But nowadays he feels pretty bad.

Imagine if you could go:

Hubiris -> black cleaver -> LDR

Would be so good.

I’ve been maining graves for a long time and have all his skins.

But nothing quite beats the default skin

I’ve been struggling hard against Briar lately and could use some pointers.
Appreciate any advice you can throw my way.

i just bought sentinel graves for the smooth animations compared to his base animations but noticed i can’t stand the skin because i basically hear no difference in his regular AA and a crit, what i loved with base graves is the deep sound of a crit and melting someones health bar but with sentinel i don’t even register i crit since i hear no difference.

I will refund the skin and buy another one, which skins has the most satisfying crit sounds? i struggle finding videos that show the crit sounds on ytb.
Visually i like praetorian a lot.

Need help with graves build. I just go: ghostblade, collector, ldr, ie. situational: maw, shieldbow, dd. Someone suggested stormrazor, but in general what is an optimized buildpath.

The crit items I currently build are collector, shieldbow, LDR/mortal, IE. Would hexoptics be replacing collector or shieldbow and when would I be building hexoptics? Do I just swap out collector for hexoptics vs tanks?

You are playing Graves with Hubris already. Your next item is Collector. You back with exactly 1,000 gold. What do you buy? Pickaxe or Serrated Dirk?

Ive been learning graves and the videos I've seen mostly recommend you to invade early so I'm just curious what people in this sub usually prefer invading or full clearing and why

Im fairly new to graves and im kinda confused on his Qs usage. I find it most useful in wave clear but when used against champion they usually walk out of it before it explodes (assuming there is no wall) so against champions im not finding much success and would appreciate some tips.

i mean not every game but most of the graves game i have played with both as my teammate and enemy, hes always so fed, one shotting everybody and his cs is so high, he get full item very quick and he also can build hybrid lethality and crit build, idk maybe he is just broken, i'm not even a jg main but he is my perma ban for like 6 months now, i would rather get lane bullied by enemy counter pick my main champ than let enemy picking graves with 26 kills 3 deaths, full item at 28 min and have 300 cs.

why does all graves players perma ult to ks kills of laners in lane and perma takes laners waves when graves'jungle is up ?...... am i missing something

Does provide insane catch potential with w. Since the w will slow plus proc your fleet and stormrazor.

Also voltaic + stormrazor speeds up the clear with the energised procs.

Which one do you guys prefer and why?