Graves build guide

Graves wants to throw hands - ( LANEDEST )

by LanedestVersion 52Updated Oct 2, 2026Guide #713338

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Author's notes

Lots of notations on what to do and when to swap certain items.

Item categories

1Queue Build
Author's category · 13 items · Queue L > R | Sell Order -> Echanters - Healbane
1. 1
  Restorative Shot
2. 2
  Extra Stamina
3. 3
  Swift Striker
4. 4
  Titanic Magazine
5. 5
  Spirit Lifesteal
6. 6
  Mystic Shot
7. 7
  Tesla Bullets
8. 8
  Heroic Aura
9. 9
  Ricochet
10. 10
  Improved Spirit
11. 11
  Spirit Resilience
12. 12
  Boundless Spirit
  Built from Improved Spirit
13. 13
  Mercurial Magnum
2Utilityoptional
Author's category · 4 items
1. 1
  Slowing Hex
  calico shiv mina escaping buy this
2. 2
  Disarming Hex
  if need against many gun carries
3. 3
  Knockdown
  vindicta, gray talon, lash etc
4. 4
3Get if neededoptional
Author's category · 9 items
1. 1
  Dispel Magic
  infernus, mirage bebop, removes all debuffs
2. 2
  Counterspell
  Bebop bombs, infernus ult, vindih ult, lash ult, rem ult EVERYTHING
3. 3
  Metal Skin
  better than plated if they dont have curses and shorter fights because u steal gun dmg in a few seconds
4How to play graves Lane
Author's category · 0 items · Early game you want to focus on staying alive. Keep an eye on your resto shot cooldowns and try to not waste them on troopers, you can wittle them down slowly. Be carefull when trading though its not worth to trade 60 to 80 damage early game if you are going to be taking 100+ from wave alone. This does not mean you need to be a sitting duck and never ever fight them graves has strong kill potential early game when it comes to using your wall. If you manage to place a wall behind someone and you intimidate them by walking in their face and throwing your 1 (skulls) at them. most people will walk back and into the wall you will half hp them instantly.You can also try if you are pushed up to their tower, to put the wall behind the guardian they most often walk into it, or the ghoul that the towers summons will walk into them because its behind them.
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5How to play graves on Midboss
Author's category · 0 items · it is EXTREMELY important for you to NOT be in the midboss pit when the rejuv is coming down. you are so squishy and will instantly blow up as soon as they try to contest. try to hide under the cover next to the pit until the enemy contests and they are in the pit themselves also place your 4 (tombstone) next to you in the cover. When the enemies are in the pit thats where your time to shine comes and start fighting. Place down a wall on the rejuv, before it spawns or when its close to hitting the ground, the amount of resistances and weapon damage you are stealing and the damage you are applying is insane. This alone will almost always win you the fight even if they get 3 rejuvs.
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6How to play graves on rift.
Author's category · 0 items · Its kinda the same as midboss, you are squishy if they see you and dogpile you. you are almost guaranteed dead, graves needs time to apply stacks on people, so try to hide in the veil and wait for an opportunity for a good wall placement to catch someone of guard, or jump into their backline and kill those 2 people or 1 guy. You can also place your tombstone in the veil, if people go and try to break that they will lose a lot of health, because there is no space to dodge the ghouls in there.
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Categories appear in the author's order. Only the editor's default Early, Mid and Late sections are marked as game stages; the author's own categories keep their names. “Built from” links come from the game's item recipes.

Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order
Jar of DeadJar of Dead	Jar of Dead: Ability unlocked, step 1				Jar of Dead: 1 AP upgrade, step 5										Jar of Dead: 2 AP upgrade, step 15