Rework Graves

Master Broneko·7/8/2015, 3:11:14 PM·1 votes·486 views

For a while now I've felt that graves was pretty underwhelming. I've tried him around 8 times so far during free rotations and against other ADCs he seemed pretty weak in comparison. His range is okay since he's wielding a shotgun, kinda makes sense, but sadly his AA damage in hardly compensates for it. Also, his abilities just don't seem rewarding enough to compete with others, especially in comparison to mana costs. You see Graves's Q take out a hefty amount of his mana while a Lucian can poke with more damage and half the mana cost, seems pretty unfair. Furthermore, though I know he's more of a late game champion, I never really saw anything to be excited about over his late game in comparison to his mostly farm oriented early game (due to the range and lack of serious harassment compared to say, caitlyn or jinx) while you have champs like twitch with a similar early game who became the face of terror late game. If not an ability rework he should at least have a numbers rework so that he can compete with other adcs. feel free to share opinions.

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The LeJhin7/8/2015, 7:49:45 PM1 votes

Surprisingly I have yet to feel that Graves was underpowered, I started maining him about maybe 3 weeks ago (I have no idea when xD) But I always feel stronger than my enemy laner at all times. It may just be that I am very comfortable with him but I know that if they want to take me down I have a dash which gives me AS and I can win all early to mid game trades with correct positioning not to mention once you get an IE and AS item (Shiv or PD) you can hold turret against the enemy ADC and Support solo, I actually have picked up way more kills than should be allowed with the surprising amount of burst an auto, dash, buckshot point-blank, ulti combo does when the enemy adc is trying to destroy my tower. One thing, if you want to continue playing him I have learned is that if the enemy ADC is a higher range ADC (Jinx, Caitlyn, Kog-Maw) Stay out of the teamfight until the jungler and any other tanky people have initiated on the enemy, I have died many a time until I realized that if I delayed hopping right into the thick of it they couldn't swap focus onto me with a single CC ability and just have the enemy ADC gun me down. Remember, you have a shotgun therefore you are superior to all other ADCs Graves