People have complained "Tank Graves" wasn't a Tank. So here you go, Tank Graves, but Tankier [908388]🛡️ - 90% Spirit Res, (62% @ 16k souls) - 23% Bullet Res, -28% Fire rate, 73% weap steal - Plated, deflect + on-hit prev - Siphon (can't be anti-healed) + 13% -> 70% Lifesteal

Guys, they don't bind parry in Ascendant ✌️😭 - 4.8k damage in 12 seconds btw

Graves doesn't work in pro play, her early game is far too weak, and she can't get the econ needed. Why are we even comparing pubs and pro play? They are very different games. Tank Graves cannot be played in pro play. It's not possible. Making her new "meta build" irrelevant.

You guys are not ready for the Melee Graves gameplay 👊

GUYS MELEE GRAVES IS OVERPOWERED HAHAHA

Deadlock community is goated

Here are the Thumbnails I made for the Video! ✍️ #deadlock #graves

⬇️Expand I think I did a bad job at explaining Tank Graves, it's the item combination is OP not Graves alone. The concept of stacking Item Damage Instances to make up for you own lack of neutral damage. (Most instance items have Resists as stats which is how it pivoted to "Tank") Graves can just facilitate essentially any item in the game, within reason, combined with her theft she can do some absurd Ultimate Bravery builds. This is why I think Torment Pulse bothers people so much and got lost in Translation, the idea is, the more simultaneous damage sources, the more effective DPS you have. Items in this game do so much damage so combining them gives you an absurd amount of damage while most of these items also have resist base stats. If you are items are doing all the damage you can invest more souls into defensive stats, which is how this idea came about. Also Escalating Exposure is bad on Graves. But for this build it's good. Multiplying a bunch of different Spirit Damage Sources makes the item actually have value rather than just trying to amplify Skull or Zombies damage alone in your base kit. ∼4 stacks of Escalating Exposure ∼= Boundless, so your damage doesn't get punished for not stacking raw spirit. And the many sources of spirit damage you have means you will stack Escalating Exposure off cooldown, and can even stack it AoE aaswell. This gives consistent Amp stacks in fights, which Graves just can't do in her base kit. The build stemmed from Calico's instance stack build + an old Scourge and Colossus build I was playing on Graves. It was based around damage instance stacking and I just realised that you inherently stacked resists with it. This is why I'm not sure what Yoshi is going to do to nerf Graves, she might get a slap on the wrist and they wait until the Shop Update or they just shoot her out back. We will have to see.

Who likes my resists @ 40k souls 🥸