23. After that you wont ever catch him again. She also is AP and can build armor. Graves in the midlane has good waveclear and is very strong in the early game. Running Revitalize makes this even stronger. So basically his whole kit exists to counter you. Will Graves is the son of Kelly Graves, who was the Gonzaga women’s head coach for 14 years before taking the same job at Oregon. The safer route of winning this matchup is by just outscaling him. Edge of Night will counter her knockup.She has no real gapclosure pre-6 so this should be an easy matchup, just run her down with Phase Rush. Warning: I also tweet abt gymnastics, cancer & blood donation. You might want to avoid him in the jungle depending on how comfortable you are on Graves and what runes you are running.Early game you can just kite her out by dodging her Q, but after level 6 she will be a nuisance and dueling her will be near to impossible.Bit annoying.
Executioner later in the game will reduce his healing.Not a jungler, but a friendly reminder to all our Graves players to not pick Graves into this champion.
If you play it right, by playing around his E slow, third Q knockup and by putting your smokescreen to good use, you have a chance to win the duel. You should still be able to invade and fight her (especially if you see her use Charm), but you definitely want to get a hexdrinker or qss a bit later into the game because she will oneshot you after a while without it.Annoying champion. Please consider supporting us by whitelisting us in your ad blocker! I hope you liked my guide. Remember that Janna als gives you a juicy amount of AD.Her spellshield and ability to lock enemies in place make her a good synergy.This champion is just insanely good at locking down and that enables you to hit everything in your kit.This champion is just insanely good at locking down and that enables you to hit everything in your kit.Great champion to coordinate invades and ganks with.Best champion to go with Graves. The jury is still out. His Q will steal your attack damage, and he will be able to use his Q since you can't kite this champion properly. Share. Fight 1v1 only if you're in the advantage. Since you play Graves for damage and not survivability (since he has near to no cc) and he's AD you don't go the Health or AP jungle item. Always look at his champion info so you can see whether he has Grit stacks or not.Keep invading early in the game to gain a lead in gold and exp while he is desperately trying to get a gank off.

Later in the game he might be a bit annoying in teamfights (especially in lower elos) so dont let him freely do his thing; remember that you are playing Graves!Dodge his snowball and kite him out. She can clear fast and she has more mobility than you and can just kite you out till you're weak and then burst you down. You want red smite and nimbus cloak so you can keep up with her.

Remember to read the notes on top of this page as well (the little pencil) since there is a lot of information there too! If you want to fight him at scuttle try to not get hit by his first axe. Since Graves' passive makes attackspeed items give him less value, this is … He will definitely outduel you if you're even in exp and gold after level 6 so be careful.Your only chance to fight him is while he is doing his first clear. Graves, a 1996 graduate of West Virginia University, has made sports coverage his living since he got out of school, bouncing between daily newspapers in Maryland and Florida before joining the AP. "I’ve been a Gonzaga fan my whole life," said Will. As Graves you want to stay close to enemies for more damage output but his fear just absolutely ruins you if you can't dodge it by getting out of its range.