How to win lane as Graves against Cassiopeia · 46.67% win rate over 15 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Graves | Level 1 Cass has only one ability and no dash to escape — a single point-blank 4-shell volley plus your Q cone out-trades her if she steps up to last-hit. |
| Level 2 | Cassiopeia | At 2-3 she adds Miasma (W) to ground your E mid-dash and her Noxious Blast poke out-paces your sustain — she takes the lane back immediately. |
| Level 3 | Cassiopeia | With Q+W+Twin Fang online she grounds your only gap-close and stacks poison through True Grit before you ever reach shell range. |
| Levels 4-5 | Cassiopeia | Her layered poison and your perma-grounded E mean armor stacking can't save extended trades — she out-DPSes you across levels 4-5. |
| Level 6 | Cassiopeia | Petrifying Gaze stuns you the second you E in facing her, and her poison ticks through the lock for the kill — your all-in becomes hers. |
| First item | Cassiopeia | Her first AP item out-scales your Eclipse spike — percent-HP poison damage ignores the armor your True Grit and Bushwhack stack. |
| Two+ items | Cassiopeia | Liandry's + Rylai's Cass kites your empty-magazine reload windows on her passive move speed and burns you through armor — you are hard out-scaled. |
Level 1 is your one clean window — Cass has a single ability and, crucially, no dash or escape, so if she steps up to last-hit, E in and unload a point-blank 4-shell volley plus a Q cone; you win that exchange outright. It sours at 2 and breaks at 3: once Miasma (W) is up she drops it on your E path to ground the dash mid-flight, killing your only way in, and Noxious Blast (Q) poke plus Twin Fang (E) detonations chunk you faster than True Grit's stacking armor can soak. Stop walking into shell range against a grounded E — last-hit at the edge of your Q and eat the poison chip.
The full Graves vs Cassiopeia report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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