Graves
Hardest matchups for Graves in Jungle (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Ivern, 
Wukong, 
Zyra. Easiest: 
Locke, 
Brand, 
Ambessa.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into GravesOn the pro tier list
Graves on patch 16.22
- Jungle49.5%#55 of 74B16,515 games
- steady since 16.21
Graves’s main role on patch 16.22 is Jungle: a 49.5% win rate across 16,515 Emerald games, #55 of 74 Jungle champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 6.7% of games. Since patch 16.21, Graves Jungle has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 92,271 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle98% of its games | C | 48.7%48.7% raw ±0.4 | 51,234 | 7.3%8.2% banned | 50.9%46.4% first time |
| Top1% of its games | too few games | 48.1%45.6% raw ±3.7 | 713 | 0.1%8.2% banned | 50.6%46.4% first time |
| Mid1% of its games | too few games | 47.0%36.7% raw ±5.9 | 275 | 0.0%8.2% banned | 50.3%46.6% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 50.2%51.4% raw ±7.4 | 175 | 0.0%8.2% banned | 51.5%46.9% first time |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 49.4%37.5% raw ±14.1 | 48 | 0.0%8.2% banned | 51.4%47.2% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Graves’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Graves, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Graves
Lane leads and team bans
What Graves’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Graves than the other team does in the same games (322,719 games). The other team banned before Graves was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Graves was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Graves is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Lethality
50.2%46,669 games - Crit
47.6%4,884 games - AD bruiser
50.0%172 games - On-hit
49.9%1 games - Mana stack
49.9%1 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Graves does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
54,975 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Smite48.6% · 54,807 games
Fleet FootworkPrecision + Inspiration · 50.4%
Triumph · Legend: Alacrity · Cut Down · Cash Back · Triple TonicShards: Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Scorchclaw Pup · 50.6%
Key items: Hubris → The Collector · 50.6%
Boots: Mercury's Treads · 51.5%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Smite48.6%54,807 games · 100% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Keystones
- Fleet Footwork + Inspiration50.4%15,824 games · 29% pick rate · same players: +2.0 pts vs the usualRecommended
Fleet Footwork + Domination48.4%3,920 games · 7.1% pick rate · same players: +0.3 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Dark Harvest + Precision47.9%33,329 games · 61% pick rate · the usual choice
Minor runes with Fleet Footwork
- Triumph49.9%100% take it
- Legend: Alacrity49.8%98% take it
- Cut Down51.3%11% take it
Coup de Grace49.7%88% take it
- Cash Back51.2%15% take it
- Triple Tonic52.1%12% take it
Cosmic Insight50.2%89% take it
Magical Footwear50.2%84% take it
- Attack Speed48.7%99% take it
- Adaptive Force48.6%100% take it
- Health49.4%10% take it
- Health Scaling48.5%88% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Graves’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Graves’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Graves does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Graves wins 47.0%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 51.4%. That gap ranks it 104 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 190K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Graves in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle | 50.2%7W 6L | 1%1% in any lane | 77% counter | +646 gold | — |
How much knowing Graves pays
Players on their Mastery band win 4.5 points more on Graves than first-timers do: #104 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Graves players win 51.4%: #137 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 54.1% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
GravesDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.