How to win the jungle race as Graves against Amumu · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Graves's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Amumu.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Graves Dominant | End of the Line plus knockback autos shred melees holding a buff pit, while Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers. Only one of those wins at the first buff, so press it: take the level-1 crossing, then leave with a camp and a chunk of their health bar. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Graves Dominant | Quickdraw (E) True Grit armor stacking lets you out-trade in tight jungle lanes. Bandage Toss is their gank tool, not a duel-winner, and with one camp still up on both sides that is not an answer. Take the level-2 skirmish and make Amumu path away from the camps you want. |
| Level 3 Route | Graves Dominant | Smoke Screen's blind caps a kit that wins almost every close-quarters exchange. There is no version of this Amumu wins right now — Despair tank stats clear fine, but champion duels are losers, and that folds at the opening scuttle. Show on their side of the river and take the first scuttle and the gank window behind it. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Graves Dominant — Keep Fighting | You are the stronger side all through 4-5. Amumu knows it — levels 4-5 are pure gank-hunting for him — a Bandage Toss into any lane with follow-up beats a full clear — so shadow that side of the map and make them fight you anyway. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Collateral Damage Favoured | Collateral Damage adds a dash-reset execute to your close-range shred. A Bandage Toss into the AoE Curse locks you down for the full follow-up — respect that one window, but the six-spike comparison favors you: take the post-6 duel whenever HP bars start even. |
| First Item Spike | Youmuu's / Umbral Glaive Spike | Completing your core lethality component grants a devastating physical damage and armor penetration spike that completely destabilizes their defensive stat builds. Your camp clearing mechanics become completely automated, letting you wipe whole sides in seconds before invading deep into their jungle tracks. Amumu's first completed item makes Despair and Tantrum clear at real speed and turns his engage into a genuine team-fight threat. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Graves Favoured at Full Build | You are the better full-build side, narrowly. He is a Curse-and-run engager whose value is the ultimate, not the duel, so take the duel with cooldowns up and never mid-rotation. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp — Quickdraw (E) refreshes its own cooldown and resistance boost on a hit, which keeps your armor/MR up through the first two camps — then continue down toward the scuttle crab. Amumu opens on a buff and clears steadily off Despair and Tantrum, so he is rarely far from his own camps before three.
Ranked by the race windows in Graves's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Graves vs Amumu report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
Read the full guide — plans from $1.99/month →🔒 Secure checkout · 💰 7-day money-back guarantee on your first payment · ✋ Cancel anytime
Lane Pass $1.99/mo · All Lanes $3.99/mo · Annual $24.99/yr. Renews automatically — cancel anytime.
Graves's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows — Graves holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Graves's race plan controls 7 of the 7 windows, so Amumu is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
Graves takes Fleet Footwork on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace, and Domination secondary (Sudden Impact and Treasure Hunter) vs Amumu.
Start Mosstomper Seedling + Health Potion and back for Serrated Dirk / Cloak of Agility — keep full-clearing into invades. Build Youmuu's / Umbral Glaive first, then Infinity Edge, with Plated Steelcaps / Berserker's Greaves.
Playing the other side? Amumu vs Graves guide →
All Graves jungle matchups →
More Graves jungle matchups: vs Xin Zhao · vs Zac · vs Zyra · vs Bel'Veth · vs Brand · vs Briar