How to win lane as Lillia against Graves · 56% win rate over 25 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Graves' shotgun auto out-trades your single-ability level 1 — farm Q from range and concede the opener, neither of you wants to commit yet. |
| Level 2 | Lillia | Your Q sweetspot stacks move speed and your E slow lands, so you kite him and the Dream Dust burn ticks while he reloads. |
| Level 3 | Lillia | Layered Q sweetspots plus the compounding DoT mean every shotgun step-up costs him HP he can't sustain, and your speed keeps you out of his auto range. |
| Levels 4-5 | Lillia | Full-rank Q and the burn at its strongest let you grind him down on your move-speed stacks while his autos and E dash are on cooldown. |
| Level 6 | Graves | His E dash plus W smoke blind let him all-in through your delayed Lilting Lullaby sleep and burst you before it lands — this is his window, play for anti-engage. |
| First item | Lillia | Your Liandry's/Riftmaker or Blackfire spike turns W and Dream Dust into percent-HP melt that beats his tanky-ADC durability — force skirmishes here. |
| Two+ items | Lillia | Graves doesn't out-statcheck your burn like the hard scalers do, so your DoT and isolate-sleep keep winning fights and roams at two-plus items. |
Level 1 you concede — you only have Q and Graves' shotgun auto chunks you, so just farm Q from max range and eat nothing. The lane flips at 2-3: once your Q sweetspot starts stacking move speed and your E slow lands, you become uncatchable and the Dream Dust burn ticks every time he steps up to auto. Bait his two-bullet burst, then chase on your speed stacks — he has to reload, and that reload window is when your DoT is free damage he can't shoot back.
The full Lillia vs Graves 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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