How to win the jungle race as Shaco against Graves · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Shaco's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Graves.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Even Skirmish | End of the Line plus knockback autos shred melees holding a buff pit, and that is worth exactly what you bring: pre-placed Jack in the Boxes turn your level-1 'duel' into a 3-versus-1. Contest your opening camps when your health bar is the higher one and not before. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Even Skirmish | Even on the second camp, for a concrete reason — Quickdraw (E) True Grit armor stacking lets them out-trade in tight jungle lanes, while Deceive's backstab plus box damage wins any fight near your stacked bushes. Fight him in the open where his pellets spread, never inside a tight buff pit, and let the camp timers choose the fight for you. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Graves | At level 3 this window belongs to Graves: Smoke Screen's blind caps a kit that wins almost every close-quarters exchange, and True Grit armor plus point-blank double-shot autos win any close-range brawl. Fight him in the open where his pellets spread, never inside a tight buff pit. Give up the level-3 river fight and bank tempo on the opposite side of the map. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Respect Graves — Path Opposite | Levels 4-5 still belong to Graves in a straight fight — farm the opposite side, answer their ganks cross-map, and wait for your spike. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Graves's R | Graves wins the breakpoint outright — Collateral Damage adds a dash-reset execute to their close-range shred, and the R execute plus True Grit armor closes out any trade he starts ahead. Respect the burst threshold and fight him in the open, never the pit, then trade objectives cross-map until your items land. |
| First Item Spike | Profane Hydra Spike | Completing your core item triggers a massive physical damage and burst multiplier that completely overpowers traditional squishy or isolated targets. Graves' first item is a large step in raw damage — the double-shot at point blank starts removing squishies outright. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Graves Outscales | Every minute past 25 tilts toward Graves — he shreds anything in a corridor and holds a side lane against most of the map. Force your win condition early or watch it slip away slowly. |
Start your clear at the Raptors or Red Buff camp utilizing multiple pre-placed Jack In The Boxes to maximize early clear speed without a leash. Graves has one of the fastest clears in the game — End of the Line through two camps at once means he is level three early.
Ranked by the race windows in Shaco's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Shaco vs Graves 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 pressures 4 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Graves pressures 4 of the 7 windows, so Shaco is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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