User blog comment:Commander Marko/Diversity: Is it dying out?/@comment-1330314-20150315160739/@comment-8506165-20150316122028

The only flaw with that reasoning is that Graves wasn't really played an awful lot before people finally learned how to play Lucian. He did, however, receive some pretty generous love from the balance team while Lucian was still dominating, but if his kit is in some way intrinsically flawed in a way that makes him good at everything and bad at nothing, why wasn't he picked? Particularly as that was the era of rushing Bloodthirster as the highest-AD item, a state of affairs that a somewhat "casty" carry like Graves would rather enjoy. I think he's just overbuffed, not innately too strong/versatile/however you want to describe it kit-wise.

I could be wrong. I'm not a game design graduate. But if I wanted to highlight champions boasting overloaded or overly versatile kits, Graves wouldn't be anywhere near the top of my list.