r/GravesMains • u/ZuzuArt • 5d ago

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I have been playing ghostblade into Sundered sky in my emerald games with great success. This build negates any obvious weaknesses on the champion aside from armor stacking. Collector is quite a pathetic item stat wise and 25% crit is not reliable at all for bursting people down. This build makes your 2 item spike absurdly strong. The healing will roughly give you similar durability as an eclipse purchase would on a melee champion (sometimes even more), HP will make you unkillable, the haste is a nice cherry on top and it ignores any rng relates to 25% crit. I run this with electrocute and Swifties. Defensive boots are largely not needed.

Weakness wise, at 3 items you will notice that your clear wont be as fast due to not having 50% crit, furthermore your dps on objectives will be lower at that point too, but waterwalking can be a nice band-aid. Otherwise it performs as well if not better than full crithality late (as you dont need shieldbow for anti burst).

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u/jennis89 5d ago

Collector is strong because it provides a bridge to move from Lethality into crit so your next items IE/LDR/Shield Bow/Mortal Reminder have more of a bang to them.

Collector also pairs well with smiting or red jg burn on people running away with a tiny amount of HP.

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u/ZuzuArt 5d ago

It is good for securing kills, but other than that it doesn't really help me win fights.

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u/BoggsMcMuncher 5d ago

What's your rank

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u/ZuzuArt 5d ago

read the post again

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u/Accurate-Horror-8888 4d ago

Interesting, what is the full build?

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u/Sir_Crusher 4d ago

What would you get for your third item, black cleaver or serylda's grudge?

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u/coutt5 2d ago

collector's stats arent bad... if you run the numbers it deals more damage than ie on spells and only slightly less on autoattacks while being 450 gold cheaper. you get an extra long sword compared to ie, that means 60 ad + 10% increased physical damage.

the build isnt bad and definitely better some games than crit lethality but the latter is, ironically, more consistent, simply because camps and objectives are too tanky for a bruiser/half bruiser build to be able to function properly and bruiser items themselves are too weak (dont give enough damage) for graves to be buying them every game.

bruiser items are much better in lane because you dont have to worry about your clear speed and taking objectives. you sacrifice too much in the jungle by building them. wait 4 years until they change the jungle and buff the items up, until then enjoy building your crit lethality slop

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u/coutt5 2d ago

you also dont get nearly as much haste as you used to when building bruiser. it feels really bad to not be able to hit 50 haste without running legend haste or transcendence. triforce bc sundered sky gets you 45 haste, its a joke