Talk:Graves/@comment-14718624-20130807005103/@comment-7095057-20130812173119

If you play a very agressive early game with a Leona or Sona you can most likely wreck faces with him. Graves can snowball early and easy wins if he's got a good support.

Against Vayne, your goal should be to just shove the lane. Don't bother really trading with her so much as shoving her lane to where she misses CS. As graves is essentially a bully in lane, you want to take buckshots at her or her support when you can and make it difficult for them to do an engage with their jungler (Unless their support is like... Thresh, Taric, or Leona. Harrassing them would be akin to a suicide unless you have fast reflexes on your quickdraw). If she ults when you have your combo (QR) up, just bait out her tumble with a quickdraw or smokescreen, and QR her when her stealth wears off.

Your other option with Vayne is take a support like:

Sona: High damage Stun

Leona: Stuns/bursty passive

Lulu: Lulu is the ultimate counter to vayne. Her kit essentially eats Vayne for breakfast (Vayne gains MS and stealth abilities as well as more AD. Lulu by contrast has abilities to effectively stun a player, slow them, reveal stealth, or shield her allies, boost their MS, or give them a HP Steriod with a aura slow). As my friend says: Yes she does taste purple.