Why does graves have a melee range yet the lowest ADC HP

IMO thats because he is the 'tank' of gunslingers. I once builded full Gunslinger comp and he was my heavily armored frontline with red buff and stuff.

(Frontline is closer to enemies so low range is not a problem)

That might be funny considering low hp but armoring him makes up for that. Unless thats the reason why they nerfed his hp when I was not watching 🤔

(And looks like his armor is higher than other ADC by looking at comments)

If you want DMG then put assassin item on him so he will teleport on backline and obliterate entire team.

I assume it's either because of resistances or his autos being AoE. I haven't looked at his resistances compared to others, but it could be it's higher.

AOE autos plus certain items kinda break him

Because they want you to build 2x on him so he sits in the back clipping most of your team w/ his autos.. Add curse blade or red buff, good times.

He has higher base Armor, applies on hit to EVERY target he hits.

Probably cause his aoe AAs can be broken with some items. IF you get RFC, ideally even 2, he can be really nasty, and he also can do some stupid things if turned into an assasin. However, both those things have in common that they take him out of focus, and without that shit, he's just weak cause he doesn't have the base damage/utillity to pick up tank stuff, nor the needed tankiness to make other damage/utillity items work and without items, he might be the most usless champ ever..

His AOE + RFC buff was nerfed. So that's why nobody play him. But he can't receive buff because he can be OP again :)

Is not easy to balance these things.

Graves is OP...

Give him Noble and gunslinger Buff, hand of god? new item that heals for 40 on hit.. RFC and Swordbreaker, put him next to Shen and watch him disable the enemy team.