Draven... 7.1...
so can ANYONE explain why draven just got a buff hes by far the highest damage who can hit the hardest out of any adc in the game why the fuck would you give him a buff so he can get even more damage...?... riot what the fuck
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i think what riot does it they buff champs that aren't played a lot in ranked. from what i see its like they try to make every Champ meta. i do not think he needed a buff but honestly with the new assian destroying 2k17 adcs it kinda needed to be done. draven has lots of way to keep enemies off of him and kill them before they get back in range to kill him so yea with the broken ass champs i think it was needed ..
if there is any adc who can fight back aginest the current assasins it sure as hell is draven
Just to start, the change in damage was minimal. With most of the current viable builds on him we are talking about +8 at level 1, and late game between -30 and +50.
It wasn't much of a buff. It went from a TOTAL AD ratio of 85% to a bonus ad ratio of 105%. I made a big spreadsheet and played with numbers, at level 1 he does around 8 more damage per Q auto and this drops over time. If he does not buy a bf sword by level 5 he will actually be doing less damage and this continues through the game. At level 18 with full items you need to have 250ish bonus ad for him to do more damage now than before and any more BONUS ad from there is an increase in damage from before.
What does it mean? Well his early game will be a bit stonger overall, and I think that is a good change especially considering how easily champs like cait can mess him up. In exchange for early game power he actually falls behind more easily. If he cannot buy enough AD to make up for his Q not scaling from his base ad anymore. For the mid game with a lead he is roughly equal in strength but much much weaker if behind, and into the late game he will be stronger as well. What this does change is his itemization. In order to get enough AD to benifit from this change he can only have one zeal item (unless you sell boots hyper late game) every other item you build needs to give AD. My best shot at a final build is IE, PD/RFC/Shiv, BT, Boots, and any two out of Essence Reaver, merc scimtar, Deaths dance, Lord dom regards, mortal remonder, Maybe black cleaver, and i could potentially see duskblade or the other assassin item with MR if they arent melee only. Steraks gauge and bork used to be ok choices but now they most likely will be subpar.
Worst part of the change is that everyone bans him now because they didn't read the patch notes closely enough to see the change from total ad to bonus ad and think that this was just a 15% overall damage increase. Since I am a Draven one trick that means take a break from league for a few weeks until people figure it out.
Also, W changes are quality of life. Mid game I always ran out of mana since I just hammer the W key whenever Im in a fight (the movespeed decays really fast).