How to win the jungle race as Graves against Master Yi · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Graves's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Master Yi.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Graves Dominant | End of the Line plus knockback autos shred melees holding a buff pit. Alpha Strike speeds their clear, but raw duels are losers, and before either of you has a second camp down that is not an answer. Take the level-1 crossing and make Master Yi path away from the camps you want. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Graves Dominant | Quickdraw (E) True Grit armor stacking lets you out-trade in tight jungle lanes. There is no version of this Master Yi wins right now — Wuju Style helps the clear more than the duel, and that folds on the second camp. Show on their side of the river and take the second buff and the tempo that comes with it. |
| Level 3 Route | Graves Dominant | Smoke Screen's blind caps a kit that wins almost every close-quarters exchange. Later in the game this bites, because Alpha Strike untargetability dodges your key spell and Wuju true damage wins long trades. But as the first scuttle timer lands none of it is online, so take the level-3 river fight and tax every camp Master Yi concedes. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Graves Favoured — Take Duels | You hold the edge at 4-5, not a blowout. He is farming through 4-5 and will not contest anything until Highlander and a first item land, so meet them where the camps are, not where their laners are. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Yi's R | Highlander makes him un-kitable and every takedown resets the chase — Graves loses the straight post-6 duel. Hard CC is the only answer — chain stuns or do not take the post-6 fight, and shift your pressure to the side of the map Highlander is not on. |
| 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. Master Yi's first item is the start of the curve rather than a spike — his real jump is the second and third. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Master Yi Outscales | You lose the long game outright: he is the strongest 1v1 in the game and hard CC is the only answer left, and no build path of yours answers that. Convert every early lead into an objective immediately. |
Start at Red Buff so early Quickdraw (E) hits into camps refresh its cooldown and keep stacking Quickdraw's armor/MR buff through the clear. Track which side Master Yi opens on to know whether he's pathing to mirror your clear or crossing away toward the opposite scuttle. Master Yi clears very fast with Alpha Strike and Wuju Style, and he will be a level ahead if nobody interrupts him.
Ranked by the race windows in Graves's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Graves vs Master Yi 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.
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Graves's race plan controls 5 of the 7 windows — Graves holds the tempo advantage in this jungle matchup.
Not exactly — Graves's race plan controls 5 of the 7 windows, so Master Yi 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 Master Yi.
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.
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