Why Draven is still untouched?

Afk on Lane·10/3/2019, 6:55:00 PM·10 votes·4,681 views

He is top adc, for idk how much time, half a year? Are we waiting for other adcs buffs, to let them actually play vs Draven ? or some miracle? It's sad and boring to watch, when almost every draven wins the lane and carry game alone. If he get's Pyke Lulu Thresh as a support, then they can 2v5. He can go whatever ad item, and still will outscale ad carry in 1v1, wtf is it. Why there is even such an early game monster still avaible in the game, when all avarage games are ended around 25 minute. His kit looks simply like adc kit should look like, but right now his kit is too strong, and definetly his Q which empower lifesteal, maybe if his Q bonus dmg would not apply lifesteal, he would be a lesser threat on bot.

26 Comments

The thigh guy10/3/2019, 6:58:45 PM4 votes

Because riot only cares about high damage. And he’s doing what riot wants to force down our throats right now.

Nhika10/3/2019, 7:03:39 PM3 votes

You ever played Draven? He's probably the only ADC that struggles ALOT with MANA, and being targeted in teamfights. He doesn't even synergize well with the runes (PTA / CONQs)

I actually hope Draven stays strong.. and buff up other ADC's so we can stop seeing Kaisa Caitlyn. Oh and Ashe players farming easy game wins just by pressing R lol

OtterlyLost10/3/2019, 7:06:22 PM3 votes

Because he's not really an issue? He's got a miniscule play rate, a gimmick that means he's pretty hard to do well, and he falls off like a brick as long as you don't feed him to high heaven. He has a playrate of like 2-3% which is tiny for ADCs and his WR is pretty middling at a 50%.

Why nerf a champion who isn't problematic.

iiGazeii10/3/2019, 7:39:18 PM2 votes

Draven is hard to play, fun to watch, and easy to counter. He falls off, and a single early death can set him so far behind that he can't catch up.

He's a lane bully in the botlane. He really isn't a problem, you just need a different mindset when playing against him.

Tailypo10/3/2019, 7:19:12 PM1 votes

His only str is his high dmg. Catching axes makes him very easy to target and awkward as hell to play into most matchups.

Keiaga10/3/2019, 7:41:39 PM1 votes

top adc? https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/builds/adc/diamond/by-winrate

He's actually in the worse half of the roster from iron all the way up to diamond.

Smyrage10/5/2019, 10:38:18 AM1 votes

Because of the same reason as Miss Fortune is never nerfed: he doesn't bring anything to the team other than huge raw damage. Miss Fortune is basically a teamwipe with her ult, Draven has only huge single target damage and chase potential. Another reason is his laning phase. He either gets ahead or falls behind, that's his two scenarios. Other ADCs can make up if they fall behind, because they have something useful in their kit. Ashe has her slow and stun, Varus has grievous wound and CC, Xayah has burst + CC etc.. Another reason is his laning phase and matchups. He is a lane bully in theory, but without good support, the only champions he can bully are Kai'sa, Vayne and maybe Miss Fortune. He goes even with most ADCs and there are some others, who counter him extremely hard. Caitlyn makes his laning phase a nightmare and most Draven mains ban her, because of her zoning and poke. Jhin does the same and Varus can nuke him at lv6. Due to these factors, he has an extremely high skill-floor and an even bigger skill-ceiling, because his mechanics are extremely hard to pull off in a teamfight.

LivingDeath0611/11/2019, 12:34:25 AM1 votes

Draven is a pretty risk choice as a main (I would know, I main him). If he can get ahead during the laning phase, there is virtually nothing that can stop him. I've played Draven and sliced someone's health in half with one spinning axe just cause I destroyed during laning. HOWEVER, if he has a bad support or there are consistently 2 or 3 people in the lane, he can be thrown aside just as easily as he can snowball. Overall, it really depends on the team and who he is going against. NOTE that his passive also is virtually useless unless he gets kills. That's my excuse whenever I get pissed off at a KS lol.

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