My Problem With The Draven Nerfs

Tøys·8/19/2017, 2:13:01 PM·2 votes·1,014 views

Hi, I would like to start out with saying I am a Draven one trick so I could be a little bias, but I will try my best to look at both sides of the argument. SSo if you don't already know they are nerfing Dravens passive to compensate for his insane ban/pick rate. The change is that on death instead of losing 50% of your stacks on death you now lose 75% and for kills instead of cashing in your stacks and getting 50 gold you know cash in stacks and get 25 gold. My problem with this is that it is hard enough to come back from dying even just once , but now they are making the gap even bigger then before. The thing that broke Draven and the reason he is so strong is death's dance and my biggest problem is that this item broke him, but they are nerfing the champion... so what is going to happen when they nerf deaths dance, Draven is going to in theory be horrible. We all know it, Draven is a early game monster, he has really high damage and with his passive he can snowball out of control. This nerf dose not effect the Draven that snowballs (except 25 gold which does hurt) this nerf effects the Draven that dies in lane or people don't give him kills there is so much room for human error and after u die even once cy@ because it is over even now it is hard to come back. Dravens early game is so good so he can compensate for being bad late game, but now he is a complete hit or miss, you either get a kill and snowball (although it is less then before) or you don't get ahead and spend the game trying to catch up.

I see why Riot is nerfing Draven, because he just does too much right now and I agree honestly a nerf is ok so I can play him in ranked, but I really think his passive was not the thing to nerf. I wish they could nerf even his damage or hell nerf DEATHS DANCE the literally root to this problem. Im just worried if they nerf Draven and then they nerf deaths dance later he will become shitty. That's all from me I would love to see what y'all think. Please leave comments, feedback, questions, etc below. Thank you

P.S. These changes are on the PBE and not final. They could be changed.

14 Comments

jwebb01138/19/2017, 2:17:25 PM1 votes

the gold change on his passive limits how easy he can out item and snowball someone for getting 1 kill in lane... he is already an early game dominate adc who has one of the highest single target out put at lvls 1-3 and that is why draven is a pain.. cuz if you screw up 1 time vs draven and he gets a kill not only does he get free cs in lane and gain more experience leveling faster then you and the kill gold plus his passive gold he flat out comes back to lane with too huge of an advantage over the other adcs or other champs in general... but hitting his passive he isnt losing damage... he just loses the free gold income he gets to out ITEM the other champs.

BALDG1VEN BOOMER8/19/2017, 2:26:44 PM1 votes

If they were going to nerf Deaths Dance they would've done it by now, so since it's looking like it's not they decided to nerf Draven directly instead.

Draven nerfs are fine, they put him in a more feast or famine state, his passive already gave him tremendous snowballing and if he's going to feast he already snowballs hard enough so when you finally shut him down he needs to have some agency to getting some of that gold back so he's not back to snowballing again off of one kill.

jwebb01138/19/2017, 2:37:30 PM1 votes

oh and its not one item that makes draven strong and broken if that one item did that then alot of more champs would be strong from using the same item.

for example tank junglers item 1401 got buffed with 20% bonus hp making all tank junglers stronger therefore nerfing individual champs for item 1401 wouldnt be the correct answer ... changing the cost or directly nerfing item 1401 would be

as far as item 3812 no one out side some melee top laners a few junglers are building the item so to say to nerf the item cuz of DRAVEN wouldnt be correct... nerfing draven would be