Draven Wild Rift Build & Guide

Innate: League of Draven

Draven gains a stack of Adoration every time he kills a unit or catches a Spinning Axe. The stacks of Adoration are consumed when Draven kills a champion and it grants him bonus gold. When Draven dies, he loses half of his stack of Adoration.

This passive is part of what makes Draven snowball hard. Along with his natural early game strength, once he gets one kill, it becomes easier to get another kill because of the bonus gold. The gold bonus from a first blood in Wild Rift is massive, so strive to get it in your games. But of course, don’t die trying too hard to do so. Convince your support to pick an aggressive champion as well. Blitzcrank, Alistar, Leona or Braum are currently the best champions to play aggressively with.

Q | 1st: Spinning Axe 

Spinning Axe is the trademark of Draven’s play style. It allows him to infinitely juggle up to two axes at the same time. These axes grant massive bonus damage to Draven’s attacks but it has a catch that you have to catch the axe as it goes back or else you’ll lose the bonus.

The most important thing to learn about Spinning Axes is that the axe will fall towards or near the direction Draven is facing at the moment the axe hits the enemy. This is important for three main reasons:

1. Last hitting and poking in the laning phase: You don’t want to stray too far towards the enemy just to pick up axes. If the axe will land in a dangerous spot, just let the skill go into cooldown. It’s never worth putting yourself into danger just to pick up an axe. So, the best method to keep your juggling up in the laning phase is to face backwards before the axe hits your target. This will minimize your risks and keep your Spinning Axes active for longer amounts of time.
2. Duelling with the enemy: When you are duelling with an enemy, you’ll become a little bit more predictable because the enemy has an idea where you are going to go next. Minimize this disadvantage by facing left or right before the axe lands. This makes you a little more unpredictable. Do this at the start of trades and not if you are going for the kill, the most optimized or fastest way to kill the enemy will always be the best choice.
3. When chasing the enemy: You don’t want to have an axe going towards the opposite direction when chasing the enemy because you’ll lose damage or lose the enemy itself. One trick you can use to increase your chances of a perfect juggle while chasing is to let go of the left joystick once you are in the spot where your axe will land. This might seem counter-intuitive but it is the same concept as doing the move-stop in LoL PC. This is important to do because if you try to move back to catch an axe while attacking a moving enemy, there will be a high chance of an axe landing further back. The move-stop technique prevents that from happening.

There is a two axe limit but if you have a high enough attack speed, you can actually juggle more than two at the same time.

W | 2nd: Blood Rush

Blood Rush grants additional attack speed and movement speed for a short duration. Its cooldown is reset when you catch your axes which makes it possible to make it a nonstop buff for Draven.

Activate Blood Rush then catch an axe, then activate it again. It doesn’t consume that much mana. You’ll mostly need to buy an item even before needing to go back because of a drained mana pool.

Spam it before they nerf it and make it cost more mana or make Draven’s mana regen lower like what they did to Ezreal.

E | 3rd: Stand Aside

Stand Aside is Draven’s soft crowd control. It damages and knocks enemies hit to the side and it also slows them briefly afterwards.

Do an Auto-attack – 3rd – Auto-attack combo to finish off your opponents. The airborne effect will prevent them from fighting back or escaping your finishing blows.

Avoid using Stand Aside by targeting the enemy dead center. This method will make your opponent’s positioning unpredictable. A better strategy is to target the enemy slightly towards the side you want them to be. If you want the enemy to get knocked back towards the right side, cast Stand Aside a little to its left.

Always be mindful of how you will cast Stand Aside or talk to your support on how you want to do your combos because if you and your support cast at the same time, one of you is definitely going to miss and it might lead to your support tilting and flaming you. A good rule of thumb is that if your support is out of range, you’ll cast first and when your support is in range, let your support be the one to initiate.

If you want to use Stand Aside to ensure that the second portion of Whirling Death hit your target, you’ll succeed more often by hitting the far side or opposite side of your target.

R | Ultimate: Whirling Death

Whirling Death is a global range nuke that damages enemies twice, once going to and another on its way back.

Do not hesitate to use on enemies near you to burst them do death. You can do a Flash buffer and make Whirling Death cast faster by doing an Ult + Flash combo. You can also use Flash to position yourself next to another enemy champion before your ultimate returns to you but only do this if you are confident that you will kill that champion because you’ll lose your escape tool by doing that.

You will also have a higher chance of hitting both instances of Whirling Death’s damage by re-casting it before it hits the enemy.