How to win the jungle race as Graves against Morgana · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Graves's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Morgana.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Graves Dominant | End of the Line plus knockback autos shred melees holding a buff pit, while the W camp-melt is elite tempo. 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. Dark Binding is gank bait, not duel material, and with one camp still up on both sides that is not an answer. Take the level-2 skirmish and make Morgana 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 Morgana wins right now — Black Shield protects a teammate's gank, 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 | Nothing about 4-5 helps Morgana here: her 4-5 is a Dark Binding gank window beside her laners, with Black Shield making the counter-gank fail, while you can take any duel you can reach. Invade on the clear-timer, not on a whim. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Collateral Damage Favoured | Collateral Damage adds a dash-reset execute to your close-range shred. The Shackles' delayed second stun wins any fight you let run long near her — 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. Morgana's first item makes the binding-into-zone rotation a real chunk instead of a set-up for somebody else. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Graves Favoured — Wins Late | The late game is yours. Remember what Morgana still is at full build — the utility wins her fights, not the damage — Black Shield plus a binding is the whole threat — and take the fights that do not let it matter. |
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 Morgana opens on to know whether she's pathing to mirror your clear or crossing away toward the opposite scuttle. Morgana clears very fast with Tormented Shadow and stays healthy off her passive, so her early tempo is better than it looks.
Ranked by the race windows in Graves's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Graves vs Morgana 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 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 Morgana 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 Morgana.
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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