Draven vs Ezreal jungle (please read)

Fresh Untilted·11/6/2017, 11:55:56 AM·1 votes·610 views

I went into a normal (I don't wanna risk demotion before season ends), and Ezreal was banned twice in a row (first in a remake). So I thought I'd try something new, but similar, and went Draven jungle. I'm surprised that he is able to jungle as effectively as he does.

So lately I've been experimenting with Draven vs Ezreal jungle in practice tool. I've done a normal clear (blue, wolves, red), and an extended clear (blue, gromp, wolves, red), and Draven is almost as fast at clearing as Ezreal. In fact, in the extended clear, Draven was only 7 seconds behind (3:17 to Ezreal's 3:10). Seeing as Ezreal is known for having pretty good clears with his Q damage and strong ganks with red buff up, I thought it was amazing that Draven could keep up with Ezreal so well.

Ganks feel quite powerful with Draven too. His W gives him 40% movement speed at rank 1, and his E is actually a pretty good ganking tool, due to its range and speed. Due to scuttle crab, Draven is able to gank any lane with two axes up, making it a very potent gank (of course, being reliant on scuttle crab isn't ideal). Draven also has no skillshots that gets blocked by minions, giving him more opportune times to gank than Ezreal.

But after trying a couple of games with him, I realized something else. It's not necessarily his early game that is better than Ezreal's (though he can keep up to a certain degree), but his scaling. Draven, much like Twisted Fate and Gangplank, has a gold generation ability. Draven's, however, is reliant on him constantly hitting spinning axes, which puts him in an awkward spot against good players that can abuse this to make him push, putting him at risk of dying, and therefore losing his Adoration stacks. In the jungle, he doesn't have any problems with this. He can freely farm his Adoration stacks, and then gank a lane to trigger the extra gold. Being a jungler, he also dies less on average, since the enemy team doesn't know where he is at all times, so his Adoration stacks are safer.

I just played a game with Draven, where our ADC got 178 cs to my 118 (yes, I know, terrible). She also had one more kill (6 to my 5) and the same assists (10). However, my gold was 12,230 to her 12,163. This may have to do with big monsters, sure, but as a jungler, you're expected to make several thousand less gold than your ADC. So a 60 CS difference and one less kill, made us have the same amount of gold? Draven seems quite capable of stacking that extra gold from kills, which is more likely to happen due to the fact that unlike as a botlaner, you're a playmaker on the entire map.

And that's not even mentioning Draven's kit actually scales with crit, and the fact that he doesn't need Stormraider's surge to keep up with or kite enemies, giving him the opportunity to either take Warlord's, Fervor or Thunderlord's instead.

I build Draven with:

item 1412, item 3006 , item 3142 , item 3072 , and two crit items, usually item 3087 and item 3031 .

I want arguments for Ezreal's case, so please come with them. What makes Ezreal a better carry jungler than Draven?

6 Comments

archerno111/6/2017, 12:28:42 PM2 votes

Ezreal power comes in his eearly ganks. You arent supposed to do full clear. Take blue and red buff and gank. Thanks to his E Ezreal can safely invade and counterjungle. He also has much better range and can molest enemy jungle without being punished

FOR JUSTICE11/6/2017, 12:23:25 PM1 votes

in b4 I see 30 more youtube videos on draven jungle

up next is jinx, sivir, kogmaw, and vayne jungle

ImAGhostOoOoOoOo11/6/2017, 2:48:35 PM1 votes

I've been gone for 2 years and now these two can jungle?!

(SWEET)

TONY6705781911/6/2017, 6:54:19 PM1 votes

lol i tried it once for fun too and its garbage. cant do shit without 2 axes and its way too hard to have them both when u gank.

also to really be effective, you need both axes and have Q available to bait a skill shot or in case u miss an axe.

draven jungle might seem good, but its because everything is good 2v1. draven jungle is stupid