Dark Harvest is the optimal keystone for Graves jungle, paired with Sudden Impact, Grisly Mementos, and Treasure Hunter. Secondary runes include Legend: Alacrity and Triumph. Take Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling shards.

Core Build Path:

• First Item: Youmuu's Ghostblade
• Boots: Plated Steelcaps
• Second Item: The Collector
• Third Item: Lord Dominik's Regards
• Fourth Item: Immortal Shieldbow
• Final Item: Infinity Edge

Skill Order: Q > E > W

Key Tips:

• Position Q against walls for faster explosion damage
• Cancel auto-attack animations with E
• Use E and R for mobility over walls
• Don't use E with 2 auto attacks available (wastes reset)

Strong Against:

• Gragas (56.6% WR)
• Elise (55.5% WR)
• Talon (55.1% WR)
• Lillia (52.3% WR)
• Lee Sin (52.2% WR)

Weak Against:

• Rengar (42.4% WR)
• Zyra (44.0% WR)
• Nunu & Willump (45.0% WR)
• Xin Zhao (45.2% WR)
• Amumu (45.2% WR)

Best Synergies:

• Swain (56.7% WR)
• Akshan (54.8% WR)
• Talon (54.3% WR)
• Gwen (54.1% WR)
• Katarina (53.7% WR)

Alternative Build: Replace Youmuu's Ghostblade with The Collector as first item for a more scaling-focused build (50.7% WR over 1,341 matches).

Off-Meta Build: Start with Hubris instead of Youmuu's Ghostblade (51.3% WR over 665 matches).

Current overall win rate: 52.7% based on 18,906 matches in Emerald+ ranked games.

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