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Ferocity: 18

Cunning: 12

Resolve: 0

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1	Ezreal	Ezreal is easy for Draven, so long as you stay inside or behind your minion line. You out poke him if you're careful of his Q, and at 6 his all in is nowhere near as potent as yours. He is slippery as hell though, so don't commit too hard if his E is off cooldown.
1	Kog'Maw	Kog'Maw is a hyper carry. This little void puppy deals hardly any damage early but becomes a god late game. Try to poke him when his W is down, or if you're in range you can outfight him post level 3. When his W is on however his range is great so treat him as you would caitlyn for this duration. Pick him apart early and he'll be no threat for a while.
1	Sivir	Sivir is countered by Draven. What makes Sivir so good is her spellshield, which blocks most ADC's DPS. However, Draven's damage comes from his Q, which is an auto attack. This makes her like caitlyn without the auto range. Her ultimate has great syndergy in teamfights however so make sure to pay attention to their teamcomp and build accordingly.
2	Vayne	Vaynes are usually free lanes for you. Her lane presence is poor and her trading is mediocre. She becomes a demon late game though, so make sure to abuse your raw damage early to make sure she never gets there.
2	Lulu	Lulu is a very pokey peely support. She can polymorph you which makes you unable to do anything expect move slowly for a couple seconds, and she can shield and give a massive health boost to whomever she wants. Trade when her shield is on cooldown and avoid the glitterlance and she'll be easy pickings.
2	Bard	Bard is a roaming support, he's also incredibly unique. Pre 6 he's practically useless, dodge his Q (which is only slightly faster than a morg bind) and he can't do anything. His W lays down a healthpack, tread on them to destroy them but don't worry to much about them. His E makes a portal between 2 locations through terrain. You can take this portal but be incredibly careful if you do, as bard can easily land a stun through it and more than likely an enemy will be chilling there with him. Post 6 he has a giant AoE zhonya's that effects everyone/thing except the nexus obelisk (the lazer) this is what makes bard a god, or trash. A good bard will use this ulti to set up his team, save his team, and catch you offguard. A bad one will kill his team, give you free picks or just miss. It's slow and obvious that it's coming if he fires it from far away, just keep in mind all 5 enemies will be close by (probably). Don't stand right in front of/behind your creeps or support, as bard can easily land a stun on you which can potentially do some serious damage if the enemy ADC follows up on it.
2	Shen	Shen is a bodyguard in every sense of the word, he forces oppenents to attack him (with his taunt) and he gives his allies some hp regen if they attack a target marked by his Q, his ultimate also is 100% global and gives an ally a beefy shield before he teleports himself to their location after the channel. Shen in lane is only threatening if you're in his dash radius, which is only 600 range (To compare, leonas zenith blade is 875 range and your auto attack range is 550) and Shen can be made to stand aside when he dashes. Beyond that, he gives the ADC small amount of health regen and targon heals. Abuse him pre 6 as he can't do pretty much anything, however at 6 he can easily bait a fight with his ultimate, but usually shens will teleport out of lane to help an ally, if shen does this make sure to abuse the fact he left the lane by killing/damaging the enemy ADC or taking their tower. Preferably both. Careful with a taunt flash combo, as shen can flash at the end of his dash and still trigger the taunt, but this is only possible once every 5 minutes.
2	Ashe	For me, it's very easy to beat an Ashe. She's an immobile ADC, like Draven. You can outdamage her, but she can still poke the hell out of you. Even with her slows, you can win your lane by good trades.
4	Caitlyn	Cait is a lane bully through and through. However thats all she is until 6 items/ultra late game. To win just farm up and dodge her Q, when she does Q move in to trade, and run when her passive is procced. It's never worth it to take that shot. Other than this just abuse her mid game with your superior damage and dueling.
4	Twitch	Twitch is great in teamfights and midgame when assassinating people. However, you can push him around early and shut him down. Draven is one of the few champs who can duel him lategame even if he opens on you.
4	Nami	Nami is similar to Lulu, but with sustain instead of mitigation. She can heal and buff targets making them deal magic damage and slowing people, plus she has a targeted damage ability that bounces back to heal her. She can also stun you in a similar fashion to a small corki Q so avoid that. Once her bubble is down she can't do much so feel free to smack her and her ADC around during that time.
4	Soraka	Soraka is a secondary health pool for the enemy ADC. She has a weak damaging ability that heals her so try to dodge that, and she has an AoE silence that roots you if you stay inside. The silence isnt a big pain for you, but don't stand in it. What makes her annoying his the fact she can heal her ADC every couple of seconds which drains her HP. So make sure to focus her over the enemy ADC otherwise they'll just get healed back up to full. She is incredibly anti-fun and to be honest, right now you should ban her.
4	Corki	For me, Corki isn't very scary, even with his poke ability and his 'W', I can still win a lane against him. Of course, it depends on the support, but you can beat him kinda easy.
5	Morgana	Morg is fairly easy for Draven thanks to her low range and lack of any damage prevention early. What she makes up for though is the fact you can't cc a target of her choosing and she can lock you down for around 3 years. Dodge her Q at all costs (Give it a wide dodge because its hitbox is awakward) and go all in once she uses it.
5	Lucian	Lucian is incredibly mobile and incredibly pokey. Avoid short fights and make sure to abuse his low range. You can dodge his Q by trying to position yourself awkwardly behind creeps, thus making him push to harass you, or miss altogether. If you get hit by his W, any attack against you from his team will make him run faster so keep that in mind if you get tagged. His ultimate is deceptively strong, as in if the Lucian is good he can land most/all of the culling and that will deal an incredible amount of damage to you, if you can make him stand aside when he begins to channel it.
5	Miss Fortune	MF is a poke bully, similar to caitlyn, but more about teamfight presence than pure range. Her Q is great at making sure your backline is your enemy too, and her slow is a pain. Try and stay inside your creeps to make double up less effective and make sure to E her ulti, unless you need to turn and run. Her new (buffed) Q now deals absurd damage if it kills the first target, so don't stand behind an ally minion that can be last hit, or you'll feel the pain.
5	Janna	Janna makes the enemy ADC beefy and makes them do more damage. On her own she's nothing more than a knockback bot with high movement speed, so abuse the target without a shield, if they all in you with her shield, focus it off to make sure they can't hit you as hard. Her range is low so abuse that.
5	Sona	Sona can do all sorts of buffing and healing for her ADC and herself. She puts an aura around her to either heal, boost the damage of, or speed up anyone in its radius. She cant specifically target you so standing near minions or behind your support will reduce the chance of you being hit. Try and all in her to make sure she cant outsustain you.
5	Jinx	I destroyed a lot of Jinx's. But I found some of them that actually are playing well. In early you can outdamage her, but if she gets fed, your chances to win the game are 10%. Poke her and engage when she is doing mistakes.
5	Jhin	A decent matchup, if the Jhin player decides to play in the turret, that must be a problem, because you can get ganked. I don't have any tips for now, because this guy just got released, maybe I will come back with some information after.
6	Graves	With season 6 graves got a rework. He now does disgusting amount of damage but has to be in melee range to do it. You can poke him at will as his range is 425 to your 550, and he can't auto attack through minions anymore. That being said, if you do get hit by a full buckshot you'll feel it for weeks. Also STAY AWAY FROM WALLS. His new Q, End of the Line instantly detonates if it hits a wall, doing insane damage. Keep him at arm's length and you should be fine, and never get close to him, even if he's behind.
6	Varus	Varus is a problem for Draven, the range on his autos makes him a pain to out trade pre 6 and post 6 he can hardcore CC you causing you drop axes and lose the fight thanks to his Q/W burst. Focus on farming early and let your support/jungle create the pick, which thankfully is pretty easy to do due to his lack of any form of mobility. Not even a movement speed steroid.
6	Kalista	Kalista is a lane bully that gets outscaled the longer the game goes on, usually. This lane is all about your support and their support, as it's hard to be outraded by her, but it's also hard for you to outrade her. Poke with a Spinning Axe auto when she walks up to get a creep, but focus more on farming. As soon as a fight breaks out from either support, immediately go all in. Focus Kalista 90% of the time in this situation so she can't build up enough rend stacks to one shot you (Except against Soraka, always kill soraka first)
6	Tristana	Trist is annoying as hell. Her E damage stacks up really quickly, she has great escape with her W and R plus she can demolish towers in a split second along with creep waves. Her weakness is extended fights, which, if you catch your axes, will win. You can interrupt her jump with your stand aside, so look for the animation start up to get maximum style points!
6	Braum	Braum can force you to hit him, like a taunt but more friendly. His E causes your axes to hit him if you target behind him and they bounce off it dealing reduced damage. Force trades with him when its down and once you dodge his Q. If he autos you or lands a Q, pull back immediately or a painful stun will follow if he can keep hitting you, or if the enemy ADC can hit you. He very commonly forces fights by jumping to a creep and auto attacking or q'ing you from point blank, so avoid getting close to the enemy minions. When he puts his E up, walk around the side of him as he cannot change its position.
8	Alistar	Alistar is a giant cockblock. He has enough CC to make you weep. Focus on staying at 500+ range from him and make sure to play safe if he has his flash on. Once he uses an ability however he becomes fairly uselss aside from being a massive sponge. focus your attention on the enemy ADC and keep his position in mind, make your support harass him as much as possible.
8	Thresh	Thresh is like a slower more dangerous blitz. His hook is your Death Sentence so make sure to avoid that at all costs. Once it's down however he has no innate tankiness so feel free to abuse his low range. His W can set up jungle ganks very effectively so make sure you pay attention to how he throws it.
8	Annie	Annie is someone who didn't get mid but wants to deal damage after being forced to support, usually at least. Her stun is obvious thanks to its marker but she deals incredible harass with autos and Q's. She outranges you hard so focus more on the enemy ADC and play safe when her stun is up, ESPECIALLY post 6. Once she blows her stun however feel free to go aggressive.
8	Nautilus	Naut is starting to see some light in play thanks to cinderhulk, and he's also being picked as a support thanks to his W change recently. He's a massive beast of a champion but is also incredibly slow. He has a hook like thresh or blitz but its a lot slower but has a lot more follow up potential thanks to his passive and E. Keep the bushes warded and try and disjoint his hook with your E. His ult is point and click so judge your HP, the enemies HP and their Damage to determine weather you can withstand the 2s CC or run.
10	Blitzcrank	Blitzy is one of the best champions at abusing postions. His Q pulls you straight out of your comfort zone into hell. You can bait his Q by dropping axes when appropriate but Dravens fault is he is predictable. Stay inside creeps and make sure your support is pushing up. If blitz hooks your support, go ham onto their ADC. The danger of blitz depends on his skill however, a mediocre blitz will be useless, but a good one will be a giant pain for you to deal with.
10	Leona	Leona is like Blitz but with more CC and more going ham. Her E, if it hits a champion, launchers herself into the last champion she hits, this make her dangerous thanks to Dravens predictability when juggling. With some skill you can use your Stand aside to knock her when she does this, but this isn't easy to do. Minions cant help you here so just play it cool and if she wastes her E, make sure she regrets it because that's all she has to go in, unless she flashes or lands her ulti. Avoid putting a lot of time into her when her W is active, she mitigates a lot of damage.

Table of Contents

Welcome to the League of Draaaaven!

Pros and Cons

Abilities

Summoner Spells

Final

Welcome to the League of Draaaaven!

Hi, my name is "hi im think", or you can call me Think (I know what my name means, I just like the looking of it) and this is my guide on the leagues best champion, Draven. Draven is an immobile ADC (or marksman) that as one of the highest potential DPS in the game. He also has one of the highest skill floors/ceilings in the game as well so it'll take a fair few games to pick him up, and a lot more after that to master.

In this guide I will be covering everything from runes/masteries, to what each summoner spell does to you and your enemy and the best build for Draven.

Pros and Cons

Pros / Cons

Pros

+ Powerful Harass
+ Reletivly Easy Farming
+ Global Ultimate
+ Stupidly High Snowball Potential
+ One of the Highest Potential ADC Damage

Cons

- Can be shut down with reletive ease
- Not uncommon to be camped by the enemy
- Very Difficult to pickup
- Even harder to truly master
- No hard escapes (like Arcane Shift

So overall Draven is a high risk, high reward all in ADC. You either win in a hail of gold and axes, or you lose with more deaths than your mid lane yasuo. This shouldn't deter you however, as I personally feel like he's one of the most satisfying champions to play in the game. Nothing beats a smooth juggle of 2-3 Spinning Axes straight into an Ezreals face.

Abilities

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League of Draven

When Draven catches a Spinning Axe, kills a minion or monster or destroys a turret, he gains a stack of Adoration. In addition, Draven generates 2 bonus Adoration stacks if he kills 6 minions in a row without dropping an axe. When Draven kills an enemy champion, he consumes all of his Adoration stacks and gains 50 + (2 × stacks) gold. Draven loses half of his Adoration stacks upon death.
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Ok so this passive is what makes Draven so insanely snowbally. Every time you catch an axe, or kill anything that isn't a champion you gain 2 gold, which is then 'cashed in' and you receive all this gold at once as soon as you kill an enemy champion. However, when Draven is killed, he loses half of all that potential gold meaning if he dies then cashes in, he'll get a lot less than he would have. Try and keep catching Spinning Axes so that you'll sit on a pile of potential gold, and when you eventually kill someone you'll snowball harder than a Talon with first blood (probably).

Spinning Axe

Draven starts spinning his axe, causing his next basic attack within 5.8 seconds to deal bonus physical damage of 45/55/65/75/85% Total AD. The spinning axe ricochets off the target high up into the air, landing 2 seconds later at a location determined by Draven's current movement. If Draven catches an axe, Spinning Axe is applied for no additional cost on his next basic attack. Draven can hold up to two Spinning Axes in his hands at once.
Mana cost: 45
Cooldown: 12s/11s/10s/9s/8s
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Ok so this is what makes Draven Draveeeeennnnnnn. This is what makes him hard to play, and this is what makes him hit like a freight train on steroids after attending euro training with Terry Crews. This thing HURTS. What makes this ability so hard to use is it's ricochet mechanic, repeatedly catching and throwing Spinning Axe is hard to do at any stage of the game and is mainly a skill acquired through time and practice.

A few points to note though, the bonus damage can't actually crit however it will apply lifesteal. Attacking a structure will refresh the 5.8s duration, but it will not be thrown or do bonus damage to them. You can guide where the axe will land based on which way Draven is moving. Moving forwards causes the Axe to fall slightly in front of Draven, standing still makes it fall directly on him or slightly to the sides, and if Draven is running away, it wall fall in his path again but in the way he's running. Proper axe location guidance is what separates good Dravens from bad ones.

You can hold only 2 at a time, but you can activate the ability again to be holding 2 whilst an axe is in the air, effectively 'juggling' 3 axes, the higher your attack speed the easier this becomes, you can technically have as many axes in the air as you want if you keep catching and throwing and re-activating but after 3 it becomes more of a show off thing than actually effective.

A cool trick when leashing for your jungler is to ready a Spinning Axe at 1:36 then auto attack with it twice (Waiting to catch the Axe before autoing a second time) then just as the axe is about to timeout, ready a second [Spinning Axe]] and enter lane with both of them spinning.

Blood Rush

Draven gains bonus attack speed (20/25/30/35/40%) for 3 seconds and bonus movespeed (40/45/50/55/60%) which decays over 1.5 seconds. Catching a Spinning Axe resets Blood Rush's cooldown.
Mana Cost: 40
Cooldown: 12s
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This is Dravens steroid. It makes him attack faster and move quicker, both of which an ADC loves. The downside is it's really low duration, in comparison to something like Rapid Fire it doesn't even hold a candle to its power and duration plus the movement speed is so short lived it's more like a 'Oh ****, I need to move 100 units really quick to dodge this ability' rather than an actual movement ability. So why is it still an incredible ability? Catching a Spinning Axe totally refreshes its cooldown, and as it takes 2 seconds for an axe to ricochet you can permanently have his attack speed buff and have only 0.5s of movement speed down time.

DO NOT SPAM THIS ABILITY. Whilst it's fun to run fast whilst juggling, you will go OOM super quickly if you don't be careful when using it. You should however use it when you're about to drop an Axe as you save 5 mana and the cooldown refreshes. You will want to space it (use once every 3 seconds or so) when going all in.

Pretty simple, catch an axe get stats. Don't spam to keep a pool of mana for your other abilities. Oh, and you ignore unit collision whilst the movement speed bonus is active, which is super nice to dodge abilities and catch a stray axe, not many people know about this as it's not in the ability description so abuse it!

Stand Aside

Draven throws his axes in a line, knocking aside enemies hit, slowing them for (20/25/30/35/40%) for 2 seconds and dealing physical damage (70/105/140/175/210 + 50% BONUS AD).
Mana Cost: 70
Cooldown: 18s/17s/16s/15s/14s
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Simple utility spell. Does a small bit of damage, knocks an enemy aside (makes them airborne which is useful for Yasuo) and slows them for a chunk for 2s. Not much to it, great for all inning at level 2 as it helps proc Thunderlord's Decree , slows the enemy and makes them stop for a moment. Other than that, it's only used for chasing down a target, or escaping.

NEVER use it just for the damage, as it's base damage and bonus AD scaling is pretty small. This is PURE utility and should be used as such. You can actually interrupt a lot of abilities with this. Specifically, any dash ( Irelias Bladesurge for example) and of course anything that is a channel ( Katarinas Death Lotus as example). So use accordingly.

Whirling Death

Draven hurls two massive axes in the target direction, dealing physical damage(175/275/375 +110% BONUS AD) to enemies struck. Upon reaching the edge of the map, striking an enemy champion or upon the reactivation of Whirling Death, the axes slowly come to a stop before changing direction and returning to Draven, dealing the same physical damage to every enemy struck on the way back. A total of (350/550/750 +220% BONUS AD) if no unit aside from the target is hit. Whirling Death deals 8% less damage for each unit hit, down to a minimum of 40% damage. This damage reduction resets when the axes reverse direction.
Mana Cost: 120
Cooldown: 110s/100s/90s

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A relatively simple global ultimate. What makes this unique is the reverse mechanic, which if you master the exact point of reverse you can potentially do its full damage instantly.

Use it whenever you're in an all in fight, or if you're feeling lucky to cross map snipe someone. However make sure to only hit the target champion, because as soon as it hits an enemy champion they begin to reverse.

Tapping your ult key a second time will start the reverse early, which means if you time it right it will double tap an enemy, it will also reset its damage reduction from hitting multiple targets.

Summoner Spells

I usually pick Flash and Heal, because it's the most common ADC pick, and it's safe.

Final

That's my guide on how to play Draven. I hope I didn't miss anything. Leave in the comments below your stats with Draven.
You can find me on EUNE with the name "hi im think". Good luck!

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