How do you counter Draven?

Orochi·May 20, 2017·3 votes·12,014 views

I have no idea how to counter this guy. He has the best early (for an adc), has an amazing late game too, and has passive that lets him snowball even if he gets one kill in laning phase. And, if he gets fed, literally just ff. There is no way you can win against a fed draven. He literally just one shots everyone. You cant even cc him down because he'll one shot you before you can even cc him, and if you somehow manage to cc him , he just uses mercurials and continues to one shot your entire team.

Ok, thats got my tilt out. But still, is there anyway to counter this guy? If so, can someone please explain?

7 Comments

Jar Jar binks lMay 20, 20172 votes

Lucian caitlynn, lucian is more broken

AptestMay 20, 20172 votes

Draven depends on catching axes for his DPS. Without this his steroids are short lived.

When the number of allies and opponents increase, and also when the location of the skirmish is closer to obstacles, the freedom that draven has to move around his opponent is limited. Some directions are obviously going to be out of the question due to opponents and ally's positioning.

This constraint makes draven a worse team fighter than his opponent. Because he has less freedom to do what he needs to do, than his opponent. Or alternatively, that he can be forced out of his ability to DPS properly.

Therefore the counter to draven is to increase the size of the skirmish and make the skirmish more mobile.

Panic AttackJan 25, 20192 votes

have other lanes win its actually the only option if you don't go in with super long range counter picks. otherwise you actually might as well afk.

OrochiJan 27, 20191 votes

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have other lanes win its actually the only option if you don't go in with super long range counter picks. otherwise you actually might as well afk.

chief this was posted 2 years ago LOL

archerno1May 20, 20171 votes

He doesnt have mobility and his weakness is that he has to catch axes so u know how he will position.

ÇhåryzårdMay 20, 20171 votes

People with farther range or mobility can give him problems.

If you have skillshots his axe targets on the ground make it easy to harass him.

Your jungler should prioritize coming bot a few times because draven will lose half his stacks upon dying. If you let him free farm most of the game he will get an insane amount of gold once he does get a kill.

oSEXYPLATYPUSoMay 20, 20171 votes

varus, cait, ashe, jihn

they all out range him and can slow him or cc him if he gets too happy..

the issue is he is a lane bully... to the max you want to avoid giving him early kills... cuz of his passive cuz if he gets a kill not only does the get the gold for it... his passive gives him more gold therefore he snowballs hard cuz of out GOLDing you and gets ahead... in team fights he is egh... cuz of his mechanic of catching axes and newer dravens/bad adcs wont know how to position properly in fights trying to catch axes and this is how you get him...

if you make him drop or miss an axe his damage out put is lowered greatly ... so a champ who can slow.poke.harass make his life hell if he tries to hurts him

and that is how you want to trade is to force him to miss cs /or axe . and he is hard for most adcs to 1 vs 1 ...