I've put up with a lot over the course of this game
But for the love of god I am so fucking done with trying to have faith that you have any clue what the flying fuck you are doing with graves?
Honestly, can we get someone, anyone, from Riot to explain the though process behind Graves; why the fuck does he have knockback on jungle monsters, why the fuck does he get free resistances, why the fuck can he kill me ON A WARRIOR ENCHANTMENT WITH 3 AUTOS AND HIS Q?
The worst part is theres fuck all to outplay, his ult range/size is fucking enormous that it completely overcompensates his "short AA range", and theres no way to dodge his Q without a dash that doesn't involve eating a bullshitly over-pumped AA.
And I HONESTLY COULD HANDLE ALL THAT... If he came out of the jungle AT FUCKING 1/2 HP LIKE EVERY OTHER CARRY JUNGLER DOES.
And frankly I'm done with it. Champions that have had hard counters have been nerfed before as "counter-picking is not a viable means of counterplay", so how the hell does making graves STANDARD (FUCKING STANDARD MIND YOU, NOT WEAK) against magic damage appropriate means of counterplay?
The fucker needs some risk involved, and frankly, when I'm breaking my back outplaying a Zed, his Nautilus, his Gragas Support, all while trying to avoid all manner of crossfiring bullshit, only to be "outplayed" by a Graves walking through all of my spells not a care in the fucking world and right clicking me, it honestly makes me want to vomit.
Shit is worse than Lee Sin, which is something I had tried desperately to avoid admitting because i thought I hated that fucker more than anyone.
But no.
Apparently I don't hate Lee Sin enough.
I'm not going to suggest any compensation for him, he doesn't fucking need, or frankly deserve, it. He needs to be dropped by at least 2 pegs, starting by removing his bullshit resistances that should have been changed the moment he went into the jungle, AND his knockback against monsters.
Either that or you completely gimp his AA ratio to make it deal notable damage if he is building only crit items so he actually has to scale like everybody else.
I think the former is more healthy and fairer but I honestly don't give a damn which, but I am sick to death of having an aneurysm every time I have the horrid displeasure of being forced to play against this champion, who spits in the face of every single risk-calculation there is in the game.
in top lane. I think that shit is even more 'spits in the face of risk calculation' than Graves. But I get your point about how awful it can feel to face Graves as a melee champ (he shits on melee pretty hard tbqh).