Scorchclaw Pup Smite Choice: Tarzaned typically goes for Red Smite to enhance damage and provide self-peel with the extra slow. He goes Red Smite mainly because of the health % damage. On the other hand, Blue Smite can be quite strong as well, but Tarzaned feels that Graves already has plenty of movement speed already, which is why he tends to lean towards Red Smite.

Boots: Tarzaned usually opts for Plated Steelcaps (Tabis) or Mercury's Treads (Mercs) as his preferred boot choices. He believes that survivability and reducing crowd control effects are crucial for Graves, especially when playing as a frontline.

Duskblade of Draktharr: Tarzaned suggests rushing Duskblade as the core item. Duskblade provides increased damage against enemy champions based on their missing health and grants the ability to become untargetable and invulnerable to non-structure damage for a short duration after scoring a takedown on an enemy champion within 3 seconds of damaging them. This item offers great utility and is particularly effective against squishy teams.

The Collector: Against squishy team comps, the next core item is Collector. It grants bonus lethality, critical strike chance, and the ability to execute low-health enemies. The execute effect makes it a powerful tool for securing kills and snowballing in the early game.

Black Cleaver: Against tankier compositions, Tarzaned recommends building Duskblade into Black Cleaver as the second core item (instead of collector) . It provides armor penetration, health, and cooldown reduction, enhancing your damage output and survivability.

Bloodthirster: As a fourth item, Tarzaned suggests building Bloodthirster for increased attack damage (Engorge: While above 50% Health, gain additional Attack Damage.) and sustain through 18% healing. It provides additional survivability and allows you to stay in map/fights longer.

Situational Items: Tarzaned emphasizes the importance of building situational items based on the game circumstances. If you want to do more damage against full squishy comps you can go Prowler's Claw. For heavy AP compositions you can go Edge of Night or Maw of Malmortius, if the enemies have shields you can go Serpent's Fang. You can also go Rapid Firecannon against champions like Ezreal/ Janna that you can’t really Auto Attack, this item will help you. He also recommends going Guardian Angel against like assassins or true damage champions( Camille, Darius, Cho'Gath, etc.).