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Official Strategy
Playing with Graves
Smoke Screen can be used to escape and to set up a kill.
- Use
Quick Shot to get you within range, while shooting a Plomazo point-blank, Plomazo can deal a lot of damage.
- In duels, always try to place yourself in the potato of your adversary, hit him some bullets and you will see all the blood that you take from him.
Playing against Graves
Graves deals mostly physical damage, so armor is a good defensive measure.
- Exit the area of effect of the
Smoke Screen instantly removes the damaging effect.
Use of skills
- Online always save mana for
Quick Shot to be able to escape if the enemy jungle is coming or to get closer and finish off an enemy.
- When fleeing from an enemy with a skill shot in the bottom lane (such as
Blitzcrank o
Thresh) uses
Smoke screen to obstruct vision.
- In a 1v1 match, start with
Quick Shot to get bonus attack speed.
- Use Plomazo Plomazo in line to give the last blow to several minions and at the same time hit the enemy.
- Try to keep the True Valor charges True Valor by hitting minions, to receive armor for free.
- During the lines phase, Plomazo Plomazo is a great ability to prevent the enemy from landing the last hit, however it costs a lot of mana if used repeatedly.
- At high levels, Plomazo Plomazo can kill all mage minions in one hit, even without damage items.
Graves can easily knock back and kill minions with Slam Slam. However, you should save
Smoke Screen due to its relatively low damage, great utility, and great cooling.
- For a high damage combo, cast
Smoke screen over an enemy, get close with
Quick Shot and shoot Plomazo Plomazo close to the target.
- Reducing the vision ratio of
Smoke Screen is very useful, along with its area slowing effect.
Smoke Screen can be used to play enemies and allow
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- It can be used to initiate a ganking as the target will not be able to see incoming enemies.
Smoke Screen can be a strong element to slow down approaching enemies.
Smoke Screen greatly diminishes the usefulness of an enemy champion that relies on unit ranged spells, such as
Cassiopeia the
Annie because her target's vision is required to cast these spells.
- El
Quick Shot of
Graves can be used to move through tight spaces. This allows to be
Serious very mobile and can benefit you in chases or escapes.
- Try to use
Collateral Damage at the start of a team fight when enemies are together, allowing you to hit multiple targets.
- When the champion you are up against has some flash ability (for example
Ezreal) and try to face you, throw
Smoke screen where it moved, and quickly escapes leaving your opponent blind.
- By using quick spells, you can cast Plomazo Plomazo and
Quick Shot together so you can zoom out while firing all three of Plomazo Plomazo's bullets in front of you. Use this technique to take down low-health enemies and escape quickly.
Using your Build
- Due to its high AD ratios in Plomazo Plomazo and
Collateral Damage, items that provide AD are a great way to increase damage output from
Serious
Infinity Edge and / or
The Sanguinaria are excellent objects with
Serious
- Similarly, arming yourself with items that give armor penetration like
The Dark Blade,
Youmuu's Ghost Sword and
Last Whisper can greatly increase the damage output of his abilities as they all deal physical damage.
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The Dark Blade for armor and health penetration, to deal with tanks; and
Youmuu's Ghost Sword to kite and increase DPS in duels and team fights.
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- Similarly, arming yourself with items that give armor penetration like
- Due to the fact that
Graves only has his
Smoke screen to slow down enemies, the
Ice Mallet or the
Gauntlet of the Iceborn gives them great utility, although arming them sacrifices their potential for damage.
Graves can make excellent use of
Infinity Edge both because of the high AD and critical hit chance and the damage along with the attack speed buff of his
Speed Shot in online exchanges.
The Sanguinaria has a passive shield and high sustain that can be useful for
Serious when behind in line or late game due to short range.
- The reduced cooldown and attack speed can significantly reduce the cooldown time of
Quick Shot.
- With enough attack speed to reach the 2.5 limit with
Active Quick Shot,
Swift Shot can be active continuously.
- The passive of
Runaan hurricane leaves
Serious reduce the cooling time of
Swift Shot three times faster, as the 2 bolts it fires are considered basic attacks. Despite letting it use
Speed Shot more often like
Graves is an AD Caster the damage objects are more effective.
- With enough attack speed to reach the 2.5 limit with
- Despite being listed as a recommended offensive item, the
Sword of the Ruined King is an ill-advised item to pick up
Serious since
Graves has abilities that have relatively high AD scaling and the item doesn't give enough AD.
- However, it synergizes well with
Quick Shot as the attack speed it provides will help reduce the cooldown time of
Quick Shot. It is recommended
Sword of the Ruined King when dealing with tanks with a lot of life since
Quick Shot allows
Graves use the passive effectively. The active effect is also useful in duels.
- However, it synergizes well with
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How to Counter
- One of the strengths of
Graves is his burst. Try to avoid its high burst and take advantage of its high cooldowns early in the game.
- Also note that the basic attacks of
Bass are quite short (525 in range), use this to your advantage when playing poke-based ADCs (
Ezreal and
Caitlyn).
- Also note that the basic attacks of
- Consider buying armor early to mitigate its damage early in the game.
- Try to separate your team, to minimize the damage it can do
Collateral damage.
- Quickly move from the
Smoke Screen
Graves. The debuff only lasts when you are within the area of effect.
- Also, save your spells until you are out of
Smoke Screen since the loss of vision can make you miss your target.
- If you are a champion planning to cast support abilities at an ally, consider staying close to the ally as well as
Smoke Screen can't take your vision off him and cast abilities on him.
- Also, save your spells until you are out of
- Avoid prolonged fights with
Graves as he gains armor and magic resistance as the battle continues with True Valor True Valor. The armor and magic resistance bonus can change an expected kill to a save of
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