Graves

Notes

• Graves takes 2.08 seconds to reload 2 shells (when the clip is empty) and 1.3 seconds to reload 1 shell. He must idle with 1 shell for 2.08 seconds before he starts reloading. These values can be improved with bonus attack speed.
• Values of bonus attack speed between 150% and 200% have a negative effect on Graves' reload speed.
• Attack speed growth will always have a positive effect on Graves' reload speed and is not counted toward the 150% and 200% attack speed thresholds. For example, Graves gains *(20-1)*(0.7025+0.0175*(20-1))% bonus attack speed from attack speed growth at level 20; meaning the thresholds at level 20 are at 150+*(20-1)*(0.7025+0.0175*(20-1))% and 200+*(20-1)*(0.7025+0.0175*(20-1))% respectively.
• Maximum reload speed is 0.65114 – 0.89119 (based on level), which equates to a reload timer of 1 / (0.65114 – 0.89119) (based on level) seconds, which is the shortest reload time at the 150% threshold.
• Precise formula is unknown, but it is confirmed to be confusing. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXmXsCdqAyw&t=520s]
• The in-game HUD for the champion's stat panel incorrectly displays Graves "reload speed" for reloading 2 shells as his attack speed, instead of displaying his actual attack speed which behaves normally like any other champion. This displayed value more accurately represents his reloads per second, and not attacks per second as the attack speed tooltip in the HUD would suggest.
• Graves can hit multiple individual enemies with a single shot from his basic attack. The first pellet hitting an enemy:
• Deals the highest damage out of all other pellets.
• Applies and triggers on-hit effects.
• "Single-use" on-hit effects such as Spellblade items will be applied to the very first enemy hit by a pellet (closest one in this case).
• Applies basic damage, while all additional pellets deal default damage.
• Is reduced by Rock Solid.
• Graves' attack windup is based on such a low value that it will always take only 1 game tick, even at the lowest possible attack speed of 0.2.
• When Graves has his attack range increased by 35% to 573.75 via Sharpshooter, it has special effects on the cone spread of his basic attack:
• The reach of the individual missiles is also increased by 35% to 843.75 / 783.75.
• The spread of the individual missiles is decreased by 35% (angle 1/1.35) to 17. / 22..
• Pellets will not hit wards nor jungle plants.
• When Graves performs a basic attack against these units, he will fire a standard ranged homing missile at the target to successfully hit it.
• This same missile is also used for when his basic attack is empowered by an Energized effect.
• Pellets can be dodged and blocked, but not missed while Graves is blinded.
• While Graves is blinded, the pellets are special cased to fire in a random direction that is always away from the primary target of his basic attack.
• Enemies within range of the pellets in their randomly fired direction will be hit as the pellets cannot be missed.
• Basic attack resets other than do not affect Graves' basic attack timer.
• Structures can be hit by multiple pellets, as with other valid targets.
• If Graves' basic attack critically strikes against an enemy behind their structure, and this structure is hit by all pellets, the damage dealt to the structure is increased by 33.%.
• On-attack effects such as and Wind's Fury will be triggered as usual from the completion of Graves' basic attack windup. They will obey their standard target-acquisition rules in spite of Graves' special basic attack behavior.
• Wind's Fury can still fire its bolts at secondary targets even if they were already hit by the pellets of Graves' basic attack.
• Carve will be applied for the physical damage dealt by each pellet, meaning that each of Graves' basic attacks can apply up to 4 stacks of the effect, increased to the maximum of 5 with a critical strike.
• Lightshield Strike will function normally with Graves' basic attacks, causing the pellets to critically strike if the primary target was also a target of the item's effect.
• If none of the pellets hit the target of Lightshield Strike's effect, however, the item's effect will not be consumed on the target thus not triggering the heal nor applying the on-target-cooldown, but still causing Graves' basic attack to critically strike as if the effect was successfully consumed.
• His basic attacks against the marked target will be guaranteed to critically strike until the item's effect has been consumed by at least one pellet hitting them.
• Pellets will not consume the item's effect on secondary targets that are also targets of the item's effect; they will not consume the mark of enemies near the primary target that are marked by Lightshield Strike.
• Resilience will reduce the critical damage dealt by every pellet, resulting in each pellet dealing less damage than if they were to not critically strike.
• Bring It Down VFX for its missile appears to fire at the primary target, but will always collide with the target hit by the first pellet.