Graves vs Pantheon in Top lane is a hard lane on patch 26.14. The one thing to respect: his melee Q outranges your autos — he stat-checks you hard in the early game. Below is the exact page the OTP runs — runes, skill max order, summoner spells, item build and the four tips that decide the lane, plus a quick quiz before you lock in.

⇄ ChangeYOU · TOPGRAVESthe Outlaw

⇄ ChangeENEMY · TOPPANTHEONthe Unbreakable Spear

VS

Heavily unfavoredPre-6 HardPost-6 HardTake Ignite

How to play it

✓ DO

Q outranges you

His melee Q outranges your autos and he stat-checks you hard early — never sit in Comet Spear range for a trade.

Early armor helps

Pick up early armor to blunt his opening stat-check — you have no clean even trade before that.

Farm over fights

He's a busted statchecker early, so take safe farm and disengage instead of contesting short trades you lose.

✕ DON'T

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Never sit in his Q range trying to out-trade him early — his melee Q outranges your autos and he stat-checks you.

Runes

PRECISION

INSPIRATIONuniversal page

SHARDS

No rune change for this matchup — run the universal page, our every-game default.

Spells

FLASH

IGNITE

Items

Start

Core

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Graves flexes lethality and crit every game, but the constant is Bloodthirster first for the lifesteal and shield that keep him healthy in lane, then Youmuu's Ghostblade to snowball. Rush an early Cloth Armor or Hexdrinker into heavy AD/AP bursts, and grab Boots of Swiftness when you need to stick to a target.

Skill order

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	Q			Q	Q		Q	Q
			W											W	W		W	W
		E							E	E		E	E
						R					R					R

MAXQ→E→W

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