Talk:Graves/@comment-26433263-20150723173645/@comment-26001789-20150724140440

Meta Changed.

Back when he was being picked all the time, people also played Lucian and Kog'Maw, two champions he does well against and neither Kalista nor Urgot were into the game. A whole lot about his lane changed, since it allowed champions such as those two + new supports who actually wreck him such as Alistar and Nautilus. Didn't help his old counters such as Ashe and Varus kinda got new life in new reworks/builds and that he needs to pay his own safety to deal the maximum ammout of damage possible.

It also didn't help tank meta erupted and his burst is more or less negated. More DPS oriented Marksman or just sieger Marksman were better at the time and Graves slowly fell off. Might be a good time to pick him up again seeing as tank meta is dying off and people are playing more squishier champions. Botlane might be hell since a lot of things now do well against him.