How to win the jungle race as Graves against Warwick · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Graves's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Warwick.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Respect Warwick | At level 1 this window belongs to Warwick: Eternal Hunger sustain means they win any fight where both sides arrive off full camps, and Q sustain and Blood Hunt frenzy out-heal your damage the moment you drop below half. Never fight him while low — his W tracks your blood trail; disengage above 50%. Skip the level-1 crossing and bank tempo on the opposite side of the map. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Respect Warwick | Q sustain and Blood Hunt frenzy out-heal your damage the moment you drop below half — Graves has no answer to that at level 2. Blood Hunt (W) attack speed plus Q healing out-sustains every trade pattern on their half of the map too, so refuse the level-2 skirmish and answer the pressure cross-map. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Warwick | Eternal Hunger sustain means they win any fight where both sides arrive off full camps, and Graves has no clean answer to it at the opening scuttle — Q sustain and Blood Hunt frenzy out-heal your damage the moment you drop below half. Never fight him while low — his W tracks your blood trail; disengage above 50%, and give up the first scuttle rather than the kill. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Respect Warwick — Path Opposite | You lose the 4-5 duel. He tracks blood trails through 4-5, so any laner below half is a gank he reaches faster than you expect — so let them have that half of the map and cash the other half faster. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Warwick's R | Infinite Duress suppresses you through the fight while his sustain out-lasts your burst — Graves loses the straight post-6 duel. Hold a dash or hard CC for the R leap — it is interruptible mid-flight, and shift your pressure to the side of the map Infinite Duress 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. Warwick's first item is where the healing stops being sustain and starts being more than your damage can out-pace. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Graves Favoured — Wins Late | The late game is yours. Remember what Warwick still is at full build — he suppresses a carry for the length of the fight and out-heals your answer — 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. Warwick clears fast and heals through everything off Eternal Hunger, so he is at full health at every crossing.
Ranked by the race windows in Graves's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Graves vs Warwick 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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Warwick pressures 5 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Warwick 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 Warwick.
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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