AD Carry

Draven Build 26.21

Draven is the definition of high risk, high reward, a marksman whose entire game is juggling the spinning axes and catching each one as it falls so his next auto hits like a cannon. A fine but unremarkable pick at 50.5% and on the way up this patch, he snowballs harder than almost anyone the moment it starts clicking. Do it well and the bonus gold from his passive buries the enemy carry before twenty minutes. Drop the axes or get caught out and all that tempo evaporates, so he is a champion you actively pilot, never autopilot.

#42 of 91 ad carry this patch · 5.8k games

Win rate50.5%+0.2Games5.8kPick rate4.0%Ban rate15.7%Last 8 patches+0.7 since 26.14Damage profilei

AP 0%AD 98%True 2%DifficultyiHighPunishes misplays

The 10-second answer standard · 50.5% WR

Spells

Flash + Barrier Start

Berserker's Greaves SkillsQ›W›E Runes

Shards

ClassicModernARAM Counter

173 champions

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LoL ClassicSee how Draven was built in the classic eraDraven Classic Build

When Is Draven Strongest?

The win rate runs highest in the opening minutes and eases off later, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Draven's win condition is the early snowball, so cash in his adoration gold on kills, spike ahead of the enemy carry, and force the game to end while his item lead is at its largest.

Game timeline · Draven drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end27:42

Ambush zone5:24–6:54 Power spike 21:36

~5:11

13:37

16:48

21:36

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 58/100 · Even

Core 0/3 items

Gold ~6.5k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Bloodthirster · 13:37

Draven Item Build

Draven is a hyper-aggressive marksman who turns caught axes into a mountain of bonus gold, so the build loads up attack damage and crit to make every spinning axe hit like a truck. The plan is to convert an early lead into items faster than anyone else and end the game before he can be out-scaled.

Standard loadout · Draven The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Bow×1

Health Potion×2

Stealth Ward×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Berserker's Greaves71% · 53.4%

Gluttonous Greaves29% · 49.8%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.G

Guardian Angel34961.6%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.L

Lord Dominik's Regards2.9k56.4%Y

Youmuu's Ghostblade32352.9%M

Mortal Reminder51052.2%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.F

Farsight Alteration4.4k53.1%S

Stealth Ward1.4k42.7%O

Oracle Lens6241.9%

Best Draven Runes

Lethal Tempo is the keystone, and it feeds the core loop directly. His damage comes from raw auto-attacks, so the extra attack speed lets him fit more empowered axes into every trade and juggle them more comfortably. The faster he swings, the easier the whole juggling act becomes.

The pre-game page Lethal Tempo · Precision + Inspiration · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Precision Primary

Lethal TempoAttacking an enemy champion grants you Attack Speed, up to 6 stacks. At max stacks, deal bonus adaptive damage On-Attack.

Presence of Mind70% · 49.1%

Legend: Alacrity72% · 50.3%

Cut Down62% · 51.3%

Keystone plus three minors from Precision, two from Inspiration, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Inspiration Secondary

Cash Back63% · 51.7%

Triple Tonic28% · 50.4%

Stat shards Offense

Attack Speed+10% Attack Speed

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health+65 Health

Shards give +10%Attack Speed+9Adaptive Force+65Health

Rush Bloodthirster into Hexoptics C44 and play for the early snowball it enables. Stalling out hurts, so press any early edge you get. With Hexoptics C44 finished at about the 17-minute mark, his axes hit hard enough that one caught combo ends most squishies outright. Convert every kill into the passive gold bonus so you reach that item ahead of the enemy carry and stay there.

Draven Skill Order

Stand Aside takes a single point at level 3 and then sits untouched until 14, because points in Spinning Axe are what grow the bonus damage on every catch. The peel stays flat while Draven's axes get scarier.

Skill order · Draven R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›W

W›E

EMax Q first; W at level 2.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q14579max 9

W28101213max 13

E314max 14

R611max 11

Draven Abilities

His safety lives in two spells the juggling talk ignores. Blood Rush hands him a burst of move and attack speed that refreshes every time he catches an axe, and Stand Aside knocks a diver off him while slowing anyone it clips.

Abilities · Dravenpatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

League of DravenPassiveP

Spinning AxeMax 1stQ

Blood RushMax 2ndW

Stand AsideMax lastE

Whirling DeathUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

Spinning AxePhysical damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+5 per rank+75 / 85 / 95 / 105 / 115% bonus ADlv 140lv 445lv 550lv 755lv 960Cooldown-1 per ranklv 112slv 411slv 510slv 79slv 98sConstant at every rankCost45same at all ranks

Draven Base Stats

Base stats · DravenPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD64+3.4AS0.679+2.7%MS330Range550HP675+104HP53.75+0.7Armor29+4.5MR33+1.1MP361+39MP58.05+0.65

Draven Matchups

Draven lives on catching his axes, which means anything that forces him off his catch spots, dives him, or locks him down wrecks his rhythm. Lanes that just sit and farm without pressuring him let him stack adoration freely and buy his lead into an unstoppable snowball.

Lane matchups · Draven click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs AP mages 01Sidestep skillshots with Blood Rush, then punish their long spell cooldowns.02Ward flanks and river; burst mages set up ganks with crowd control.03Build magic resist to survive their burst and hold Stand Aside to interrupt. Win rate by game lengthDraven overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min52.7%20–28 min51.2%28–35 min49.7%Over 35 min48.4%

Be wary of Vel'Koz, Veigar, and Cassiopeia early, engage and all-in threats who can punish him the instant he steps up to catch an axe. Losing a fight over a single dropped axe stings more on him than on most champions. Into Viktor, Mel, and Yunara though, he wins the extended trade handily, so play aggressive from the first level and let the gold lead compound. A fed Draven closes out a game faster than almost anyone.

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