Perry Norman breaks down why Graves is now S tier after buffs that give armor and magic resist per Grit stack. The extra defense makes him nearly unkillable in duels, and maintaining stacks turns him into one of the fastest full-clear junglers in the game.
If you can keep your grit stacks while clearing on Graves, you will clear so, so, so much faster, and I mean it, like, by a lot. But look at how much damage my pet is doing to the wolf camp. Because they buffed how much armor and MR you get on Graves per E stack, you actually just clear so fucking quickly. You're one of the fastest full clear champions now simply because of that little change. Even if you're a noob, or let's say even if I got invaded by the Talon, like right now Talon showed up, buddy, I have 96 armor. You know my Viktor? He has 33. I have 96. That's the strength of the current version of Graves right now, is like, they come to fight me and I have 99 armor? Good fucking luck, bro. Good fucking luck. That's why Graves is just in such a good spot, because if you can get a fight with your stacks prepared, like here I'm gonna keep my stacks by using my E, just in case. Get this kill, great. Like, just in case someone shows up there, I E'd at the start. Keep your grit stacks up for as long as humanly possible.
