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Draven

The mechanic

Draven collects a stack for every axe he catches, every minion he kills and every tower he takes. A champion kill, and only a kill, cashes them all in for 25 gold plus 2 per stack. An assist gives nothing, and dying loses half the stacks.

Why it needs saying

The only marksman for whom kill sharing is a matter of mechanics, not ego. Without a word, the support takes a kill at 150 stacks and loses 325 gold for the team without knowing it.

When you play them

  1. team chat

    what you type

    let me take kills

    in full english

    Let me take the kills.

    the context

    On anyone else this is greed. On Draven an assist pays nothing: only the kill cashes the stacks in. At 100 stacks a kill is worth 225 extra gold, and the team decides who gets that gold.

  2. team chat

    what you type

    dont let me die i have stacks

    in full english

    Don't let me die, I have stacks.

    the context

    A death costs half the stacks, on top of the gold and the time. "i have stacks" tells the support why peel is worth more here than on another marksman.

When an ally plays them

  1. team chat

    what you type

    give kills to draven

    in full english

    Give the kills to Draven.

    the context

    The call from the ally's side, often from the support early on. The last hit on a champion is not worth the same depending on who lands it: on Draven, it cashes in stacks nobody else can touch.

When an enemy plays them

  1. team chat

    what you type

    kill draven he has 200 stacks

    in full english

    Kill Draven, he has two hundred stacks.

    the context

    A death costs him half his stacks, and each stack is worth two gold on his next kill. A Draven at two hundred stacks is a priority target for the gold he carries, long before he is a threat.

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