To reduce wear and provide effective solid lubrication at engineering loads (> 1 GPa Hertzian contact pressures), a hybrid of the two methods to improve the copper coatings (graphenereinforcement and multilayer approaches) was designed and fabricated onto DC01 steels; GnP/Cu-Ni (ML (Ni) ), Cu-Ni (GnP-free ML (Ni) ) and GnP/Cu-Cu (ML (Cu) ). Production, characterisation and tribological sliding performance assessments were studied to quantify each coating's tribological performance at increasing loads and identify both the roles and performances of each component within the hybrid coatings. A systematic tribological test plan was then implemented to illustrate the evolution of each component of the wear tracks formed during a sliding process, assessing the tribochemical, mechanical, structural and morphological behaviours against longer sliding times.