Graves Needs Buffs

AShortJoke·1/1/2018, 1:56:56 AM·2 votes·583 views

How long is Graves going to sit at a 45% wr before Rito figures out they need to give him his MR back on his e. The whole point of graves is that he's supposed to be able to win the 1 v 1 against other junglers, with a few exceptions like Lee, Kha, etc, so that he can bully the enemy jungler effectively, but I just find that without the MR, Graves can't invade any AP junglers like elise or evelynn, and those champions continue to counter him really hard throughout the entire game when they simply shouldn't be. Not only that, but the lack of MR Graves has now makes it really difficult to translate any early lead into the mid game if the enemy team has any decent AP champions. I recently had a game where I went 3-1 early, which should be more than sufficient to transfer into a strong mid game. Instead, I got jumped on repeatedly by evelynn and fizz, and without any MR, I ended up 3-8 in the mid game. I built merc treads into cleaver with the intent of getting a hexdrinker as well, but I never even got the chance. Graves is a high skillcap champion with a rather unique playstyle, so if he's not complete garbage he should be able to sit around 48%, but Rito nerfed him into the ground, gave him a couple meaningless buffs to his q, and called it a day instead of fixing what's actually wrong with him.

2 Comments

Saké1/1/2018, 2:24:16 AM1 votes

Clearly a while longer [slayer-jinx-unamused] It looks like they have lots of VGU to work on

rtbf906614561/1/2018, 6:03:51 AM1 votes

Graves doesn't need a buff. if you know you're going to lose a 1v1 to the enemy jungler, just go gank mid or top.

you're essentially asking graves to be able to win every jungle matchup. think about what that implies...