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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• INTRODUCTION
• STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
• HARDEST MATCHUPS-COMBOS
• RUNES
• TIPS & TRICKS
• ITEMS & SUMMONER SPELLS
• GAMEPLAY
• THE CONCLUSION/ITEM SET IMPORTER

INTRODUCTION 1:

Who am I?
I'm Mcdonald's Manager, I've been Challenger since Season 7, to those who know the name widely regard me as the best player to touch this champion.

Some of my greatest achievements have been:

• 80%+ winrate to challenger
• 70%+ winrate 1k+LP challenger
• 44W-1L to masters
• 99W-0L and managing to throw the last game (99W-1L)
• peak Rank 1 & 2 early season
• peak Rank 13 end season

I've managed all this while never having a setup of my own, which some find that hard to believe. I've went from place to place borderline homeless but through the kindness of strangers providing me a desktop to play on, currently I get around by playing on my brothers laptop and wifi internet. Even through it all I've prevailed with strategies and systems I've developed on my own through extensive self-research and trail and error, psychological tricks that I've yet to see/hear discussed by anyone else.


Throughout my years I've met a lot of players too scared to play Draven because of the mechanical prowess required to navigate the rift with him, I'm here to teach you that even if you have limited hardware or think you have bad mechanics, you can not only just succeed, but EXCEL with Draven. So strap in as I teach you everything you need to know to think like a Challenger, whether you're an aspiring Draven player or a veteran looking to sharpen his gameplay.

Why Hail of Blades?

Hail of Blades - enables Draven's strengths and makes them even stronger, it allows for a strong early game, and an even stronger mid & late game. I've been exclusively running Hail of Blades for the past +3 years and has become virtually synonymous with me in high elo NA as i've been the only 1 to have mastered this playstyle. What Draven players fail to realize, is you need to give in order to take, what do I mean by this? As a mousetrap requires cheese, the enemy needs an incentive to play into your trap. We need to allow enemy access and entry, give them what they want. Only when they've overstepped to be completely dominated and puinished to the absolute maximum since Hail of Blades gives you that sheer amount of burst to your damage that Lethal Tempo just can't offer to Draven.

These are my only social contacts:
Discord - @Tunkkimuna / Tunkkimuna#6415
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/mcdnldsmngrxdd
If you're looking for additional help & coaching feel free to reach out (rates dependent on your rank)
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES 2:

Strengths

		Strong laning
		Great trading potential
		Snowballs very quick when ahead
		Lane agency
		Trading kills is Draven favoured
		Strong mid-game
		Versatile
		Rewarding to learn
		Zoning/Objective control

Weaknesses

		Low range
		Easily poked
		Limited mobility
		Vulnerable to ganks
		Easy to shut-down
		Weak late-game
		Hard to comeback
		Low transferable game-knowledge
		Challenging to learn

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HARDEST MATCHUPS-COMBOS 3:

Game losing threats

Samira + Nautilus / Maokai / Rell
Nilah + Nautilus / Maokai / Rell
Caitlyn + Bard / Zyra
Yasuo + Leona / Nautilus / Maokai / Rell

Outscaling threats

Senna + Tahm Kench / Swain
Lulu + Kog'Maw / Twitch
Seraphine + Sona / Senna

Poke threats

Ashe + Lux / Xerath / Karma / Zyra
Ziggs + Lux / Xerath / Karma / Zyra
Jhin + Xerath
Ezreal + Xerath / Vel'Koz / Lux / Zyra / Karma
Xerath + Zyra / Lux / Vel'Koz / Ziggs / Karma
Lux + Seraphine / Zyra


General tips & tricks vs hard matchups

Gamelosing threats: These are going to be your hardest matchups, besides levels 1-3 you are going to hard lose at every point in the game to these combos, but that's not to say they're unwinnable. The most important thing you can do against these champions is to NOT DIE if you need to give a wave, give a wave. Your best bet is sitting back and making sure your waves are good, our goal is to farm passive stacks and hope for an opportunity on getting an execute with R stacks or a kill. If we can escape laning slightly behind Gold/XP or even; then we've made it through the hardest part of the game. Solo carrying is out of the question (unless you are monstrously ahead), you are going to need to be team reliant. Wait for your team to help you deal with these picks towards mid/late game, do everything in your power to help your team deal with them, teamplay is your saving grace. If you're unable to deal with them that is okay, help your team in whatever way possible, whether that be dealing with their top, mid, and or jungle, or simply sacrificing resources to make sure your team stays ahead (I.E dropping a wave to secure an objective) the more your team succeeds the more you succeed.

Outscaling threats: Besides beating you extremely hard late game, most if not all you'll stomp in laning. Deny them the opportunity to scale and make sure they stay behind, the mistake a lot of Draven players make is repeatedly pushing in every wave under their tower. While you do create lane pressure and agency you're allowing them to freely farm and soak XP, fight for level 2 prio and slow push a large wave. Once under their tower you can either stay to poke them down, or recall (This is referred to as a cheater recall) This will put your wave in a state that'll push back to you, if you stay do not hard shove. Thin the wave out so they can't crash it, (make sure the enemy minion wave has more than yours by no more than 4). This will put them in a state of panic where they either have to stay to shove the wave in, or reset losing 1-2waves of Gold and XP. This is when you want to be looking for kills or trades to force them into making a terrible decision. Once you want to reset, transfer your freeze into a slow push, do this by simply matching your minions to the amount of minions they have (or up to -1 or -2) keep them off the wave and await your next wave. Once next wave comes kill as fast as possible and reset. When you've created a sufficient lead, look for diving opportunity / dragon/ roaming plays.

Poke threats: Poke picks are solely designed to shut you down and fully deny you your chance at snowballing. Due to Draven's lack of mobility options (not having a dash), short range (no long-ranged abilities to assist farming), and choreographed movement patterns (picking up axes). You become a very easy target to hit skillshots on and zone if they have the correct tools to do so. Laning is going to be miserable until you have items to deal with them, just like "Game-losing threats" try your absolute best not to die in lane. If you're struggling to stay alive buy early lifesteal ( Vampiric Scepter), the weakness of their picks is once you've caught them out, they don't have any tools to survive besides Flash (exceptions: Satchel Charge & Arcane Shift) Look for opportunities to catch them out and force extended trades, this will likely result in them burning Flash which is very beneficial for us. Having flash advantage is the determining factor between getting a kill and not, evaluate whether you win an all-in or not, if your support is in position and they've overstepped, go for the kill. After laning phase is over life becomes easier, but that doesn't mean you're out of the storm just yet. Still look for those same opportunities even after laning is over because they're going to start looking to deny you enteries into team-fights. Have your team escort you into the fight OR you can force the enemy into you by threatening to obtain lane prio over the objective you're fighting over. As a general rule of thumb, it is best to play diagonally against most skillshot champions, that way there's a minion wave between you and them.

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Tips & Tricks 5:

I've included everything you need to know into 1 clear video, the manuscript can be found in the description box on the youtube video
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One trick not included is E buffering, same as R buffering, you simply wait till the target is about to stun you and you press E. This can be useful to cancel abilities, most noteable examples: || Warwick - Infinite Duress || Malzahar
- Nether Grasp || Nautilus - Dredge Line || Leona - Zenith Blade ||
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Items & Summoner Spells 6:

For the bulk of Items & Summoner Spells I've included everything you need to know on the front-page. (situational items, full build alternatives & other summoner spells) You can access this by hovering over the "NOTES" or clicking the "NOTES" dropdown menu if you're on mobile. This section will only include my full build and my default Summoner Spells as an indepth explanation to why I choose to itemize this way.


Youmuu's Ghostblade - This is my go to 1st item, movement speed creep has become a very glaring issue in this game and it's only becoming worse. You can't deal damage to the enemy if they're always faster than you. You'll almost always be faster than your opponent to fights and rotations, having the power to cut-off and zone, or being the first to lane puts you in the driver's seat to command the enemy to play into you rather than you play into them. A very powerful concept to learn and practice, don't be afraid to use the active off-cooldown to get to places, better you use it than not use it at all, with it's low cooldown it's quite an effective tool and sometimes can even replace the need to finish boots till a good ways into your 2nd or 3rd item.

Hubris - an alternative purchase to Youmuu's Ghostblade, Hubris is an effective tool to make snowballing that much easier. Although it gives similar stats to youmuu's while being 300 gold more expensive, after getting a kill the item begins to pay for itself. When you're in those snowballing games, definitely consider purchasing Hubris early on, as this will give you that much needed damage boost, look to have a 3-5+ takedown lead before purchasing.

The Collector - Moving onto our 2nd item The Collector, for what this item gives, it simply isn't matched. The passive synergy with Draven will pick up those kills that would've otherwise gotten away. Compared to other alternatives The Collector simply outdamages. Other options like Opportunity + Long Sword (3050gold) falls short in DPS even after the nerf to Collector. The 20% Critical strike sets you up for future itemization aswell which we'll get into.

Lord Dominik's Regards - 3rd being lord dominik's regard, it synergizes with both lethality from Youmuu's Ghostblade & The Collector providing much needed armor pen. After running all the numbers, this item is mathimatically proven to be the best, even if the enemies aren't building armor, if their base armor surpasses 70-80 it outdamages Infinity Edge while being 300 gold cheaper. Beyond just numbers and DPS, Lord dominik's allows you to build entirely situationally after as you won't be outscaled by defensive stats.

Infinity Edge - in most cases I'll go Infinity Edge 4th, due to our previous 2 items and how Critical strike is calculated in this game, infinity edge starts to become extremely gold efficient past 60%. Since we've already got Lord Dominik's Regards, we can realistically drop this for any situational item. If you're looking for pure damage this is your best option by far.


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Flash & Cleanse - are your go to summoner spells. The worst thing that can happen to Draven is denied the opportunity to deal damage (exhaust, CC), taking cleanse is a very good way to prevent this, there are rarely games that don't have some form of CC, but when you do run across those rare games, consider Flash & Exhaust or Flash & Heal
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Gameplay 7:

Gameplay is going to focus on the 3 main stages of the game, early - mid - late. This is going to focus solely on snowballing and creating a lead. If you're unsure how to deal from behind, refer back to chapter 3: hardest matchups and individual matchups in the counters & synergies section.

Early game: Building a fortress/starting a slow push - early game pressure is 1 of the most important things you can have, and it all stems from the first wave. There's a lot more you can do with the wave other than shove it in repeatedly into the enemy










(From left to right) 1st image: as can be seen the first and second wave I've managed to secure a minion lead. I am close to my minions to deny Kai'Sa walking up entirely or from isolate Icathian Rain, standing behind the wave also denies Blitzcrank landing Rocket Grab. If Blitzcrank were to throw a hook I have a free passage way to poke Kai'Sa out entirely.

2nd image: Now that cannon wave has arrived, I have maintained my minion advantage and have improved on it. I am a complete cannon up now with an HP lead on Kai'Sa. building upon the same idea, I stay behind the minion pressuring them into making a decision. If they take the fight they will lose, if they back off we'll get a free recall, in only 2 waves I have built myself a fortress, an unbreakable wall.

3rd image: With Leona holding choke in the 3rd bush it has allowed me to walk up completely. Kai'Sa ignoring this threat attempts to walk up allowing Leona to hit her Zenith Blade. Kai'Sa now having lost the trade completely, loses her HP bar and ends up using both her summoners, talk about great value!

4th image: The aftermath had resulted in both Kai'Sa and Blitzcrank losing both of their summoner spells, Kai'Sa had lost almost her enitre HP bar aswell. This sets up an incredibly easy dive resulting in Draven cashing out and Kai'Sa losing the entire cannon wave and more.

Once reset, the enemy's wave will slow bush back to you. Because we've just gotten a lead, we can allow this and Kai'Sa can do nothing about it. If she tries to, she will be punished and die, making the situation worst, which is what ended up happening this game.










1st image: As we can see, the minion wave has thinned out from tower to 6 vs 3, therefore pushing back towards me.

2nd & 3rd image: Kai'Sa desperately attempting to fix this wave trying to avoid a catastrophe from unfolding, happens to walk directly into Leona's trap, getting hit by Zenith Blade and dying due to not having Flash having burned it from earlier. I am freely allowed to walk through this wave having disjointed Blitzcrank's recall timer from the earlier dive. It doesn't take a lot to get the ball rolling, once you've built up pressure the enemy can often times crumble incredibly fast.

4th image: Since we didn't push the wave in, the Kai'Sa and Blitzcrank are suffering greatly, they're unable to gain gold let alone XP. Out of desperation, the Blitzcrank has walked up too far, and gets caught for it. Without him having Flash from earlier, he is as good as dead. As for Kai'Sa although she is safe staying outside Leona's range, her lane is as good as over.

Aftermath: With her wanting to reset after the whole exchange, I hold the wave at my tower until she does. I then transition my freeze into a slow push allowing me an excellent back timer further pushing my lead. In 6 minutes, I have created a 1.7k gold lead, and a 3 level lead in a Grandmaster/Challenger game.


Transfering that lead into the mid-game: Now that we're up a healthy chunk of gold, after we get first tower were going to rotate to the mid-lane. We're going to establish mid-lane prio by making sure our waves are pushed towards the enemy to create map pressure.

Since I have established mid prio, and with my team pressuring for dragon. This gives me free access to the entire side of the board, which allows me to waltz into their jungler and catch their Vel'Koz out. With the minions pushing mid I'm able to see Kindred on the map. Knowing fully where she is at I can collapse on her with Leona or assist Karthus & Ornn kill the overextended Kai'Sa. Knowing how far behind Kai'Sa already is, I leave those 2 to deal with the bigger threat Kindred, an added bonus is she is already in mid-lane, the lane I want to be in.

Now in mid-game, we need to set ourselves up for success. How do we do that? By securing objectives and maintaining map dominance.




1st image: while no objectives are up, I am creating map threats the enemy is forced to respond to. This allows mid and top to gain pressure, as they'll be no enemies in it, I will get my recall off and initiate the tactic I was planning for the whole time, to rotate back on over to mid so I'll have mid prio in time for dragon.

2nd image: Now that dragon is spawning soon, I now have complete dominance over mid-lane. Since the enemies were distracted with bot-lane (the lane I just pushed out) I'm freely able to control mid lane and almost both halves of the map! really goes to show how important lane-pressure is

3rd image: We're now able to all collapse on Zed and Kindred due to that deadly pressure put mid-lane, we've successfully forced them into a bad trade costing them dragon and 2 shut-downs. A mistake that can often times be game losing,


Late game - finding ways to end: Mid-game and late-game for Draven aren't much different, The only difference is these fights are a lot higher stakes. 1 misplay can be game-losing and 1 good play can be game-winning. Things are a lot less scripted and you'll need to adapt & adjust on the fly, try to stay mid-lane as pushing sidelanes as Draven is incredibly risky and will result in death more times than not if you're not careful.


















1st image - positioning yourself correctly in a teamfight: Due to our lack of midlane presence, aswell as Vel'Koz and Zed running from there, they've created a barrier between us and our mid-lane escape route, if we were to force it, it would end very horribly. Thankfully we have well established bot prio, we want to play towards the side where we have priority, this is where we want to pressure towards while killing dragon. Dragging the fight away from Vel'Koz's & Zed's position has made them almost completely obsolete as by the time they've arrived to the fight we're well on our way back to base a dragon ahead.

2nd image - picking and choosing our objectives: Evaluate what it is you can, and can not get away with. Due to our toplaner Yone dying we've lost our entire hold on mid-lane, although next dragon for us is soul we simply can't punch through mid to make that happen. We shift towards topside and take baron nashor as fast as possible. Just because you can't get the objective you want, doesn't mean you shouldn't create agency elsewhere on the map and take something of near value. This is a common theme for top-laners and can be done on Draven aswell with his ability to create agency and take objectives & towers with relative ease.

3rd image - always having escape routes while killing the enemy: Dying in an end game fight is 1 of the worst things that can happen. If you're the only 1 performing on your team, dying can result in losing your grip on the game or straight up losing instantly. This is why when poking and pressuring the enemies, it is very crucial to make sure you've got somewhere you can run to when things don't go in your favour. Although we're only fighting a 3v3, Draven & Kled are at half HP with Jayce & Senna coming to assist their teammates. This fight can go very sour very quickly, even with baron minions serving as a wall for skill shots, it's still very important to be warry of any potential threats of overstaying. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO PLAY SMART, there is a difference between playing smart and playing safe. It's better to die as a team than sit back "playing safe" and let them fight a 4v5. Evaluate what it is your teammates want and work with them, because I stayed and fought them off, we ended up winning instantly after that teamfight, 1 bad fight can determine your entire game. We all make mistakes, some less than others, the most important thing to do is be critical of yourself and evaluate what you could've done better, even if you think you're not at fault.
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The Conclusion/Item set importer 8:

If you made it this far, thank you for reading, I really do appreciate it. If you found this guide helpful, give it a like and share it with others, if you disliked it down vote it and leave a comment on what I can improve on future guides. For additional help as stated before, I offer personalized coaching session aswell as stream at https://www.twitch.tv/mcdnldsmngrxdd , if you have any questions or comments please put them below or send them when I'm streaming, if you need to reach out contact me on discord: @Tunkkimuna - Tunkkimuna#6415.

-Mcdonald's Manager




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