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Recommended Items
Runes: Graves runes
Precision
Domination
+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health
Spells:
Sums
Flash
Unleashed Smite
Items
Ability Order Skill order for Graves
New Destiny (PASSIVE)
Graves Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Threats
Synergies
Extreme
Major
Even
Minor
Tiny
Show All
None
Low
Ok
Strong
Ideal
Extreme Threats
Ideal Synergies
Evelynn
This match up is Eve favored. The best thing you can do is to try to contest camps in the early game and try to avoid Eve later into the game. I recommend buying merc treads and hexdrinker > maw of malmortious quite early in the mid game.
Synergies
Ideal
Strong
Ok
Low
None
Introduction
Who is KamiKZ ?
Hello Guys I am KamiKhaZix previous Rank #1 Kha Zix on EUW
I was Rank #1 Kha Zix EUW in season 8 & 9 according to some websites
Here is my Kha Zix guide
I am live streaming on Twitch: Twitch.tv/kami_khazix if you have any questions about League of legends or my Kha Zix guide feel free to join my stream and ask me there
I have been maining Kha Zix since season 6
My ranks through different seasons:
- I have been playing league of legends since season 5
- season 5: Riven/Irelia two trick, peak platinum 1
- season 6: Kha Zix One Trick Pony, 500 games, peak diamond 4
- season 7: Kha OTP yet another season. Became #128 Kha Zix in the world according to lolskill.net Peak Diamond 2
- season 8: Masters 100 LP
- Season 9: 3x Grandmaster peaked 345 LP grandmaster EUW
- Season 10: Challenger elo got rank #1 kha zix on both EUW and EUNE this season so far
- Season 11: Grandmaster on EUW so far (June 2021)
- Season 12: Challenger 1074 LP + Rank #4 Jungler in Denmark + Top 100 Junglers on Lolpros (Graves second most played champion, with 60% WR with 115+ games played)
Pros
Strong soloQ jungler
Always good no matter what your team comp is
Very healthy clear always full hp as long as you kite jungle camps properly
Good carry potential
High damage
Fun champion - fun kit
One of the few ranged junglers that actually works
Good at 1v1
Insanly good at kiting
Good at taking scuttle
Insane scaling
Very flexible since you can go crit graves, tank graves, bruiser graves and lethality graves
Cons
No cc
Brings nothing to a team wombo combo
Weak vs peel comps
Weak vs long range comps
Strong soloQ jungler
Always good no matter what your team comp is
Very healthy clear always full hp as long as you kite jungle camps properly
Good carry potential
High damage
Fun champion - fun kit
One of the few ranged junglers that actually works
Good at 1v1
Insanly good at kiting
Good at taking scuttle
Insane scaling
Very flexible since you can go crit graves, tank graves, bruiser graves and lethality graves
Cons
No cc
Brings nothing to a team wombo combo
Weak vs peel comps
Weak vs long range comps
Graves rune page #1: Fleet Footwork
Fleetfootwork is good with shieldbow graves since shieldbow will give you insane amount of healing and with fleet footwork on top you will get even more healing and slight movement speed buff
Triumph is good on Graves to survive from ignites or other burn damage items such as Liandries or champions such as darius bleed passive
Legend Alacrity is good with graves since this build focuses on auto attacking a lot and getting constant stacks and resets on your so you can auto attack even more but if enemy has heavy cc you should go Tenacity instead of alacrity only go alacrity vs no cc or minimal cc
Last stand is good with graves since last stand will be procced when you use Goredrinker which means you will do more damage while on low hp with that bonus damage you will then hopefully be able to win the fight.
Zombie ward is great for Graves since we rush Umbral because we run zombie ward in our runes and umbral is a cheap legendary items which gives us early quick powerspike that we should abuse to play aggresive in enemy jungle
Treassure hunter Treassure hunterSince we play aggresive on Graves in the early game due to the fact that we are ranged we will go Treassure Hunter to snowball even harder whenever we get a kill
Optional:
You can go tenacity instead of alacrity if enemy team has a lot of cc
You can go last stand instead of coup de grace against enemy team comps that dive on top of you (example assassins)
Fleetfootwork is good with shieldbow graves since shieldbow will give you insane amount of healing and with fleet footwork on top you will get even more healing and slight movement speed buff
Triumph is good on Graves to survive from ignites or other burn damage items such as Liandries or champions such as darius bleed passive
Legend Alacrity is good with graves since this build focuses on auto attacking a lot and getting constant stacks and resets on your so you can auto attack even more but if enemy has heavy cc you should go Tenacity instead of alacrity only go alacrity vs no cc or minimal cc
Last stand is good with graves since last stand will be procced when you use Goredrinker which means you will do more damage while on low hp with that bonus damage you will then hopefully be able to win the fight.
Zombie ward is great for Graves since we rush Umbral because we run zombie ward in our runes and umbral is a cheap legendary items which gives us early quick powerspike that we should abuse to play aggresive in enemy jungle
Treassure hunter Treassure hunterSince we play aggresive on Graves in the early game due to the fact that we are ranged we will go Treassure Hunter to snowball even harder whenever we get a kill
Optional:
You can go tenacity instead of alacrity if enemy team has a lot of cc
You can go last stand instead of coup de grace against enemy team comps that dive on top of you (example assassins)
There are many different builds for Graves
There is:
Crit Graves
Full lethality Graves
Bruiser Graves
To see all builds I recommend using lolalytics: https://lolalytics.com/lol/graves/build/
This guide will focus on Lethality graves which in my opinion is one of the strongest graves build at the moment in this current meta.
The best lethality build is
Ghostblade
Collector
Boots
Bloodthirster
Late game items are situational
You will start with red smite and sweeper without potions due to the fact that graves has such a healthy he clear he doesn´t need potion for his first clear.
Fleetfootwork will heal you the small amount of damage you take since you are ranged you just kite the camps while taking minimal damage.
By not going potions you save 50g which means you can get to your serrated dirk even faster at 1050g rather than 1100g which basically means you can clear 1 camp less and get your item faster that way.
Your first item will always be ghostblade and you will build it by going serrated dirk first because the early game is really really strong for burst damage and afterwards you will build the second part of ghostblade which is Warhammer and then you will finish ghostblade. once you have ghostblade you have the extra crit and extra movement speed so you should look to play very aggressively as soon as you have your mythic item on graves.
Then you will buy collector for the extra lethality ad and crit as well as execute damage which will give you insane burst damage in early to mid-game
Plated steelcaps vs full ad comps otherwise mercs always because we already get armor from graves e stacks
Black Cleaver 4th item pretty much always because the armor pen on Graves feels really nice on top of the ability haste which mainly will be used for being able to your E off cooldown each time you get 2 auto´s off
It will ofc also be nice with stacked ability haste for your Q and R but it´s mainly for your E resets
Bloodthirster is a great late game item on Graves because of the insane amount of AD it gives and having lifesteal in late game is great since you can sustain yourself in teamfights as long that you can AA something instead of having to recall every time you get down to low HP
There is:
Crit Graves
Full lethality Graves
Bruiser Graves
To see all builds I recommend using lolalytics: https://lolalytics.com/lol/graves/build/
This guide will focus on Lethality graves which in my opinion is one of the strongest graves build at the moment in this current meta.
The best lethality build is
Ghostblade
Collector
Boots
Bloodthirster
Late game items are situational
You will start with red smite and sweeper without potions due to the fact that graves has such a healthy he clear he doesn´t need potion for his first clear.
Fleetfootwork will heal you the small amount of damage you take since you are ranged you just kite the camps while taking minimal damage.
By not going potions you save 50g which means you can get to your serrated dirk even faster at 1050g rather than 1100g which basically means you can clear 1 camp less and get your item faster that way.
Your first item will always be ghostblade and you will build it by going serrated dirk first because the early game is really really strong for burst damage and afterwards you will build the second part of ghostblade which is Warhammer and then you will finish ghostblade. once you have ghostblade you have the extra crit and extra movement speed so you should look to play very aggressively as soon as you have your mythic item on graves.
Then you will buy collector for the extra lethality ad and crit as well as execute damage which will give you insane burst damage in early to mid-game
Plated steelcaps vs full ad comps otherwise mercs always because we already get armor from graves e stacks
Black Cleaver 4th item pretty much always because the armor pen on Graves feels really nice on top of the ability haste which mainly will be used for being able to your E off cooldown each time you get 2 auto´s off
It will ofc also be nice with stacked ability haste for your Q and R but it´s mainly for your E resets
Bloodthirster is a great late game item on Graves because of the insane amount of AD it gives and having lifesteal in late game is great since you can sustain yourself in teamfights as long that you can AA something instead of having to recall every time you get down to low HP
You have 2 options for Graves clear in season 14
Either full clear or invade clear:
Invade clear will look like this:
Start your own red buff (use smite)
E over pit and invade enemy on their blue buff/gromp
If enemy blue is up you take blue and gromp and go back to farming your own jungle
If you see blue has been taken, then you invade them on their gromp and focus the enemy champion not the gromp (because you don´t have smite)
If you kill the enemy champion, you take the gromp
If enemy flashes over the wall you can kite the gromp either up or down depending where enemy flashed over wall and then finish it
REMEMBER TO NOT OVERCHASE AND LOOK AT MID + SIDELANE AND SEE IF THEY ARE ROTATING
Full clear will look like this:
1. Start on red buff
2. Go to your Krugs
3. Go to your Raptors focus the big raptor with auto attacks and use Q on all the raptors
4. After Raptors go to Wolves, if you haven´t used smite yet, then smite wolves
5. After Wolves then go to your Gromp first and then blue
(Gromp first is important because Gromp has 2:15 respawn timer while blue has 5 min respawn timer)
After blue buff you go clear scuttle crab and then look to either gank, go double scuttle or simply reset.
This is how you wanna clear on Graves preferably every game.
If enemy jungler comes to contest you on the scuttle look if you have prio on your nearby laners, if you have prio you can still go for the scuttle but play it slow, if you don´t have prio then let enemy jungler get the scuttle and you try and get the other scuttle.
First back base depending on gold
700G = 2x Long Sword
1050 = 3x Long Sword
1100 = Serrated Dirk
Either full clear or invade clear:
Invade clear will look like this:
Start your own red buff (use smite)
E over pit and invade enemy on their blue buff/gromp
If enemy blue is up you take blue and gromp and go back to farming your own jungle
If you see blue has been taken, then you invade them on their gromp and focus the enemy champion not the gromp (because you don´t have smite)
If you kill the enemy champion, you take the gromp
If enemy flashes over the wall you can kite the gromp either up or down depending where enemy flashed over wall and then finish it
REMEMBER TO NOT OVERCHASE AND LOOK AT MID + SIDELANE AND SEE IF THEY ARE ROTATING
Full clear will look like this:
1. Start on red buff
2. Go to your Krugs
3. Go to your Raptors focus the big raptor with auto attacks and use Q on all the raptors
4. After Raptors go to Wolves, if you haven´t used smite yet, then smite wolves
5. After Wolves then go to your Gromp first and then blue
(Gromp first is important because Gromp has 2:15 respawn timer while blue has 5 min respawn timer)
After blue buff you go clear scuttle crab and then look to either gank, go double scuttle or simply reset.
This is how you wanna clear on Graves preferably every game.
If enemy jungler comes to contest you on the scuttle look if you have prio on your nearby laners, if you have prio you can still go for the scuttle but play it slow, if you don´t have prio then let enemy jungler get the scuttle and you try and get the other scuttle.
First back base depending on gold
700G = 2x Long Sword
1050 = 3x Long Sword
1100 = Serrated Dirk
You can pretty much clear all camps quite easily with graves as long as you kite them out properly and remember to split up the jungle camp a little bit so your passive auto attack can hit mutiple targets at once
Tips:
Always kite the jungle camps
Always auto a jungle camp once and then e immediately after your first auto attack to gain a stack on your E passive and gain an extra auto attack
Always kite towards the next jungle champ
Smite Krugs or Wolves
Your passive knocks back jungle camps which makes scuttle crab go from having 60 armor and magic recist to only be having 10 armor and magic recist which makes scuttle really easy to kill as Graves
A super important for graves jungle and his clearing is to stack up his E passive you do this by constantly doing damage this refreshes the current amount of stacks you have on your E passive and you gain another stack by using E it can be stacked up to 8 times
Each stack gives bonus armor
Tips:
Always kite the jungle camps
Always auto a jungle camp once and then e immediately after your first auto attack to gain a stack on your E passive and gain an extra auto attack
Always kite towards the next jungle champ
Smite Krugs or Wolves
Your passive knocks back jungle camps which makes scuttle crab go from having 60 armor and magic recist to only be having 10 armor and magic recist which makes scuttle really easy to kill as Graves
A super important for graves jungle and his clearing is to stack up his E passive you do this by constantly doing damage this refreshes the current amount of stacks you have on your E passive and you gain another stack by using E it can be stacked up to 8 times
Each stack gives bonus armor
Try to gank laners who has cc since you don´t have any cc in your own kit except W
which is little slow.
Try to gank when you have red buff, since red buff provides extra damage and a little slow on auto attacks aswell.
If your laner has no cc try to walk up behind the enemy and start auto attacking, you can start using your w on top of the enemy if needed. Wait with your until the enemy either uses their dash or flash and then E after them to always be in range to auto attack the enemy
Remember you can always finish your opponent with your R after they used flash
Try to gank when you have red buff, since red buff provides extra damage and a little slow on auto attacks aswell.
If your laner has no cc try to walk up behind the enemy and start auto attacking, you can start using your w on top of the enemy if needed. Wait with your until the enemy either uses their dash or flash and then E after them to always be in range to auto attack the enemy
Remember you can always finish your opponent with your R after they used flash
With this build you have a lot of damage and a lot of healing so the only way you can only die is if you get cc´ed and can´t auto attack anyone to heal up.
With this graves build you wanna play kind of like a mid range ADC, in the backline behind your frontline but still in front of your full back line which would be your traditional caitlyn adc.
If you don´t have any frontline what so ever in your team comp you can either be the frontline yourself or you will have to find flanks from the sides or from behind.
Most important thing is that you always want to be in range to auto attack enemies.
You wanna try and hit as many ranged champions with your W since if you smokescreen them they will have a really hard time doing damage while in the smokescreen so they will have to run out of the smokescreen first before they will start doing damage again.
You also wanna keep your E stacks up all the time for the extra armor in teamfights.
You do that by constantly auto attacking someone and using your E to get another stack.
You wanna use your ultimate to snipe someone in the enemy backline and blow them up.
You can use your Q on both frontline and backline, just use it on whoever you are in range for to be honest.
And then just kite the enemies around with your E W R and movementspeed from fleet footwork.
With this graves build you wanna play kind of like a mid range ADC, in the backline behind your frontline but still in front of your full back line which would be your traditional caitlyn adc.
If you don´t have any frontline what so ever in your team comp you can either be the frontline yourself or you will have to find flanks from the sides or from behind.
Most important thing is that you always want to be in range to auto attack enemies.
You wanna try and hit as many ranged champions with your W since if you smokescreen them they will have a really hard time doing damage while in the smokescreen so they will have to run out of the smokescreen first before they will start doing damage again.
You also wanna keep your E stacks up all the time for the extra armor in teamfights.
You do that by constantly auto attacking someone and using your E to get another stack.
You wanna use your ultimate to snipe someone in the enemy backline and blow them up.
You can use your Q on both frontline and backline, just use it on whoever you are in range for to be honest.
And then just kite the enemies around with your E W R and movementspeed from fleet footwork.
I stream on twitch.tv at https://www.twitch.tv/kami_khazix
I stream in english
I read chat while in game so feel free to ask me questions live on stream
I play soloQ mainly in high elo but also do viewer games etc
Hope to see you on my stream <3
I stream in english
I read chat while in game so feel free to ask me questions live on stream
I play soloQ mainly in high elo but also do viewer games etc
Hope to see you on my stream <3
If you wan't to support me you can do that by following me on social media:
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/kami_khazix
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KamiEUW
Discord: https://discord.gg/HV5zkE
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Insta: https://www.instagram.com/kami_khazix/
If you wan't to support me even more you are very much welcome to subscribe to me on twitch or donate to me.
By subscribing to me on twitch, you help me to get one step closer to get partnered on twitch which is my dream.
The benefits of subscribing to me on twitch are as follows:
Monthly op.gg reviews
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Coaching
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Sub badge
A guaranteed spot in viewer/custom games
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Make me extremely happy and thankful forever :)
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If you wan't to support even more than that, you are very much welcome to donate to me
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/KamiEUW
Discord: https://discord.gg/HV5zkE
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/KamiKhazix
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/kami_khazix/
If you wan't to support me even more you are very much welcome to subscribe to me on twitch or donate to me.
By subscribing to me on twitch, you help me to get one step closer to get partnered on twitch which is my dream.
The benefits of subscribing to me on twitch are as follows:
Monthly op.gg reviews
10x chance to win in RP giveaways
A chance to win in subs only giveaways
Coaching
Sub emotes
Sub badge
A guaranteed spot in viewer/custom games
A chance to duoQ with me on smurfs
Make me extremely happy and thankful forever :)
You can subscribe to me on twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/subs/kami_khazix
If you wan't to support even more than that, you are very much welcome to donate to me
You can donate to me here: https://streamlabs.com/kami_khazix#/
I am doing an RP giveaway on my stream when I hit 38k followers on twitch
The giveaway is 2x 10€ RP Gift card (2x 1580 RP)
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The giveaway is 2x 10€ RP Gift card (2x 1580 RP)
How to enter:
1. Follow my stream My stream
2. Be on the stream where I hit 38k followers
3. Type the keyword in chat on stream
Here is a youtube playlist of me getting coached by XL coach from the LEC in season 12
Many of the same concepts from these videos apply to preseason 13 and season 13:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTcwE_h8tEArHov9vWbpzmnES9BRGZe_a
Here are some useful Graves videos from my youtube channel that I know will help you become a better Graves player and jungler over all:
ALMOST PERFECT GRAVES GAME MASTER ELO EUW FULL LETH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNfZszU-84
HOW TO HAVE A PERFECT GAME AS JUNGLER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkLT2AhD2A&t
If you want to get coached yourself by me on Graves add me on discord KamiKhaZix#1616
Vod review: 25$
Live game review: 35$
Many of the same concepts from these videos apply to preseason 13 and season 13:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTcwE_h8tEArHov9vWbpzmnES9BRGZe_a
Here are some useful Graves videos from my youtube channel that I know will help you become a better Graves player and jungler over all:
ALMOST PERFECT GRAVES GAME MASTER ELO EUW FULL LETH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNfZszU-84
HOW TO HAVE A PERFECT GAME AS JUNGLER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkLT2AhD2A&t
If you want to get coached yourself by me on Graves add me on discord KamiKhaZix#1616
Vod review: 25$
Live game review: 35$
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