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Should Draven Get QOL Buffs?

Vertanium·2/7/2015, 7:27:52 PM·1 votes·788 views

Draven is a fun very rewarding, high skill champion. But he is lacking in some categories that he used to be very good in. First, his AD at level 1 is bad compared to other strong early ADCS. Id suggest just increasing it by a couple points. Second, his W refreshing on axe catch is very good, and is an incentive for catching axes. but it punishes you for using it due to the mana cost. Considering draven is a caster based ADC that doesn't have the luxury of rushing trinity force to stop mana costs hurting, this hurts him because that mana would be very useful. to offset this id suggest making it have no cost, and up to doubling his Q mana cost. This rewards draven for catching them and rewards the enemies for forcing him to drop his axes with CC/ poke.

Edit, Might have been a bit overzealous with having it have no cost. (Just thinking if trist and Kogs main steroids have no cost why does draven have such comparatively high mana cost on his secondary one?) Still a cost decrease would be wonderful and help him out when its Leauge of Casters ATM.

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JustMyBassCannon2/7/2015, 7:52:51 PM2 votes

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First, his AD at level 1 is bad compared to other strong early ADCS. Id suggest just increasing it by a couple points.

...Draven has mediocre base AD because his Q increases damage by 45%, which gives him the strongest level 1 auto attack damage. If you take into account Draven's Q, he has the highest innate auto attack damage in League of Legends. And it doesn't just scale with his base; it scales with his items, giving him a powerful steroid.

I love Draven, he's one of the few Marksmen I actually enjoy playing. But buffing his base AD only increases that damage disparity.

Oh, and to your second idea; the most I would suggest is a partial mana refresh from W when he catches axes. Making it cost nothing would be too strong; instead, have it so that if he catches an axe while Blood Rush is active, he gets back, say, half the mana.

Raja Chachki2/7/2015, 7:36:48 PM1 votes

I feel like no cost....would make Draven just run around the map YOLOing everything. He would become better at kiting than Kalista....so maybe just a smaller cost.