Talk:Graves/@comment-8097731-20130520185747/@comment-7095057-20130608084350

If you're enemy team has champs like Mundo/Singed/Vladimir/Leona: Basically all champs that build HP items, it's a nice build. If you're playing against squishy champs like Fizz, Kennen, Sona, it's not great, especially since you're tradding your burst damage for auto attacking potential.

An optimal build path on Graves with Runaans would be:

IE (Rush) -> Greaves -> BotRK -> RH -> LW -> Frozen Mallet. Doing so allows you to still crit, even if only somewhat, and keep up your damage that you need for team comp bursts.

This differs just slightly off the build that I'm running more often, and the build I just did against a Ire/Udyr/Fizz/Thresh/Vayne team comp

IE (Rushed) -> Greaves -> Shiv -> BotRK -> LW -> FM (Only got the giants belt before the game ended at 35 minutes)

Runaan's is pretty situational in and of itself though. You need to make sure you're not fighting champs that build AS reducing items like Frozen Heart or Radiun's Omen, or have a AS reducing debuff like Nasus' Wither.