How to win the jungle race as Graves against Naafiri · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Graves's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Naafiri.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Graves Favoured | End of the Line plus knockback autos shred melees holding a buff pit. Naafiri can make it awkward — double Darkin Daggers bleed plus the packmate swarm wins raw early exchanges — but not before either of you has a second camp down. Trade, then walk away with a camp and a chunk of their health bar. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Graves Favoured | Quickdraw (E) True Grit armor stacking lets you out-trade in tight jungle lanes. The margin is thin: the Hounds' Pursuit dash trade chunks anyone contesting their second buff, and one slow camp on your side hands the window straight back, so keep the trade short. Clear the packmates first — her damage collapses once the hounds are down. |
| Level 3 Route | Graves Favoured | Smoke Screen's blind caps a kit that wins almost every close-quarters exchange. The full pack with W dash and Q reset bleed is a real early kill threat, so this is an edge and not a blowout — take the level-3 river fight only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Graves Favoured — Take Duels | Through levels 4-5 you remain the stronger duelist — keep taking short, decisive trades vs Naafiri, but only with the HP and cooldown lead. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Collateral Damage Favoured | Collateral Damage adds a dash-reset execute to your close-range shred. Naafiri's six is not empty — the empowered pack dive shields her engage and swarms your counter-trade. Take the duel from even health rather than from behind, and burst the packmates mid-dive — her ult damage walks on four legs. |
| 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. Naafiri's first item is where the dagger bleed plus the pack becomes a full health bar rather than a heavy trade. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Graves Favoured — Wins Late | Naafiri falls off relative to you — from two items on you win the raw stat check, even though she picks one target and the pack removes it before your team can turn. Drag the game long and force the 1v1s. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp to maximize early health optimization via E shell resets, before executing a full 6-camp clear path straight down into the scuttle crab. Naafiri clears fast because the packmates fight the camp with her, and she reaches three with the pack still up.
Ranked by the race windows in Graves's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Graves vs Naafiri 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 Naafiri 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 Naafiri.
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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