Am I the only one who feels like Draven's early lane phase is too strong?

Barkley··3 votes·911 views

I feel like nobody hits harder than draven. I feel like nobody out-trades draven. Laning phase against draven consists of trying to find a way to sustain through his insane damage, hoping to GOD he doesn't have a support that can hard-cc you, and probably dying anyway.

Most Dravens at my elo suck. They play passively, and they're so obsessed with catching their axes that they don't do much else. They get outscaled, they get outdamaged, and they're basically irrelevant.

But a Draven that plays aggressively? Constantly poking you off of CS, charging at you with his speed boost and just hitting you with an endless barrage of axes as your health bar evaporates EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO CS...? One of the most oppressive things in bottom lane tbh. If we're speaking PURELY during laning phase.

Many other ADCs outclass him when it comes to mid and late game, but as far as early lane goes... this guy is just terrible to play against if he's even the least bit aggressive.

I'll kick back and enjoy the fact that silver-gold Draven's play passively... but I know the more I climb, the more axes I'll be catching to the back of my skull when I play ADC - and I am not looking forward to those days.

7 Comments

5050BS1 votes

Riot Balance team (tm) making decisions after 8 beers since 2010

SpaghettiVase1 votes

Well his entire kit is pretty much designed for aggressive play, Empowered AA which is reset-able for free, MS and AA steroid, long range CC, and a global ult for picking up kills. As he stands now he's not that popular so I wouldn't worry about seeing him to often.

DontTouchMyBall1 votes

The IgotClappedByTyler1Thread I think he is balanced for the reasons already specified above. The way you counter Draven is not giving him any kill and early camp him and yeah, that's about it. If he dies he loses a lot of his passive gold. Its gets to a point I'd rather defend to buff him rather than nerf him. If he was that great we wouldnt have lategame hypercarries with very high pick and banrates.

AR URF1 votes

I mean having to worry about getting dived by a full health draven when I'm half health and under tower and we're level 3-4 is a bit discouraging.

undesirable team1 votes

draven sucks rn lol

Prime1591 votes

agree with the people saying camp him and just don't give him easy kills, but he is ridiculous early game. if the draven player is decent he can sustain against almost anything. just yesterday i had a draven/karma lvl 4 (draven had vampiric), vs caitlyn/me(fiddle) lvl 4, they engaged, the karma didn't do too much, but i hit draven with fear, he stepped on a trap got empowered aa on him, my cait e'ed back from him, got another empowered aa while hitting him with q. i got my ravens to hit him and karma, and sat there and drained him and he sustained through all of it, while being hit by 7 minions. it's just a little bit ridiculous, and yes some adcs scale better, but tbh, if you know how to play draven, you don't lose ur ridiculous damage and sustain, even late game.

Barkley1 votes

Jesus man this thread is almost a year old.

...... and nothings changed.

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