How to win the jungle race as Graves against Olaf · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Graves's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Olaf.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Respect Olaf | At level 1 this window belongs to Olaf: Undertow (Q) spam clears fast and chunks anyone who contests their buff, and Undertow slows and Reckless Swing true damage win every extended exchange. Keep a wall or camp between you and the axe line and never fight inside his slow. Skip the level-1 crossing and bank tempo on the opposite side of the map. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Respect Olaf | Undertow slows and Reckless Swing true damage win every extended exchange — Graves has no answer to that at level 2. Vicious Strikes (W) sustain means they leave every camp healthier than they do on their half of the map too, so refuse the level-2 skirmish and answer the pressure cross-map. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Olaf | Full Q-W-E with Reckless Swing true damage means nobody on the roster out-brawls this, and Graves has no clean answer to it at the opening scuttle — Undertow slows and Reckless Swing true damage win every extended exchange. Keep a wall or camp between you and the axe line and never fight inside his slow, and give up the first scuttle rather than the kill. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Respect Olaf — Path Opposite | You lose the 4-5 duel. He spends 4-5 invading — Undertow slows and a full health bar make your jungle his second one — so let them have that half of the map and cash the other half faster. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Olaf's R | Ragnarok makes him immune to every form of crowd control while he runs you down — Graves loses the straight post-6 duel. Kite out the ult's duration before committing — he has no gap-closer once it ends, and shift your pressure to the side of the map Ragnarok 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. Olaf's first item is a large jump — the true damage plus lifesteal turns extended fights into ones he simply does not lose. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Graves Favoured — Wins Late | The late game is yours. Remember what Olaf still is at full build — he is a crowd-control-immune diver, so he has to be kited rather than stopped — and take the fights that do not let it matter. |
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. Olaf clears very fast with Undertow resets and leaves camps healthier than he entered them, so he is always available to fight.
Ranked by the race windows in Graves's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Graves vs Olaf 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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Olaf pressures 5 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Olaf pressures 5 of the 7 windows, so Graves 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 Olaf.
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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