Back in Season 6, Riot buffed Draven to make him more viablae as a LANE BULLY
Now they indirectly made him this unstoppable monstrosity with the mid-season update. Riot nerfed most of the things that could stop him and buffed AD making Draven strong now.
He snowballs out of control and his damage output does not fall off. Sitting at higher than a 50% winrate[LOLAnalytics], Draven is not supposed to be this strong. Right now he dishes out so much damage he takes no skill even though he is supposed to be a highly-mechanical champion.
[Edit: The below post was clarified to me to be a mechanical misplay in terms of my DPS. I would have won if I did not ult and simply used my QWE as Lucian. However, I want to show how Draven + DD is ridiculously strong]
If you want an example of his damage, let me tell you a game. Playing Lucian full-build and Draven full-build with the exception of one slot for GA for both of us. GA is down of course. Basically, Draven comes out of hiding in a bush. As Lucian, I'm pretty confident I can 1v1 Draven due to my build. He has IE, Stattik-Shiv, Death's Dance,Bersekers, Bloodthirster, and a Phantom Dancer. I have a BORK, BC, DD, PD, Tabis, and an IE. Pulling off a full combo on Draven and given him a full load of my ultimate, Draven still survives granted he got two autos on me. Next, I die of course.
So what happened here? Draven was not as defensive as me and took all my damage in the range I was supposed to be advantageous at? I dodged his ultimate as well but purely from his Q, I lost. I know I may not be the best Lucian but I believe I should have won that trade if Draven only uses his W+Q to kill me while he takes a mouth-full of my full kit.
Basically, Draven + Death Dance is too strong. His burst and the survivability he gets in case he fucks up is not good. He can rush GA in lane and still demolish you when GA should not be an offensive item.
And due to the item changes, Draven does not fall off anymore. He can dish out the most damage throughout the entirety of the game.
My ideas on solutions to Draven are below. Please note these are not to be used together unless in the same point.
- Nerf his Q scaling
- Nerf Death's Dance/remove its bleed and revert GA
