Draven/SkinsTrivia

Champion	Ability Details	Background	Strategy	Skins & Trivia

Skins Edit

Classic Skin
6-Jun-2012
Soul Reaver Draven
1350 / 6-Jun-2012
Gladiator Draven
975 / 25-Mar-2013

Trivia Edit

Draven was designed by Volty.^[1]
Draven is voiced by Erik Braa, Who also voices Jax.
In Old English, Draven's name means "Hunter".
Draven is one of the 8 champions who do not have a single skill that scales off ability power; along with Darius, Zed, Garen, Olaf, Riven, Talon and Vayne.
Draven's dance is the fire dance.
- It is also the first dance to have the champion talk while dancing.
Draven's name and overall aesthetics is a possible reference to Kraven, the Hunter, from the Spiderman comics.
In his Champion Spotlight, Draven was not played by "Phreak" like the other champion spotlights.
When Draven recalls or teleports, he strikes a pose identical to Usain Bolt's signature pose.
- When Draven strikes his recall pose, he points toward his respective summoner's platform or towards where he is teleporting.
Draven's backstory is possibly a combination of two famous executioners: Souflikar, a Turkish executioner who would challenge his victims to a race, and Richard Brandon, an English executioner who excited the crowd by killing his victims in a single blow.
Draven can catch the enemy team's Draven's spinning axe and gain the buff.
If you recall or teleport while the Spinnig Axe buff is still active, the axe that was spinning at the time will still spin when Draven puts it on his back until the buff is gone.
Draven's death animation is likely a reference to the enigmatic ending of Cowboy Bebop in which the main character makes the same finger pistol motion as Draven and says "Bang" before collapsing, which Draven reproduces down to the thumb-hammer motion.
Draven and his brother Darius share the exact same base attack speed and attack speed scaling.

Quotes Edit

Draven is the first champion to have a special quote when using Recall or Teleport.
- While Draven was the first champion to emit a quote when recalling, Darius was the first to have a special animation.
Draven is the only champion with a quote and effect made to specifically interact with himself. He emits a quote when he catches another Draven's axe.
His quote "Welcome to the League of Draven" has become a meme, in which people photoshop Draven's face onto other champions.
He shares a quote with Nunubot: Man, I'm good.

Skins Edit

The name of Soul Reaver Draven is possibly a reference to the game Soul Reaver, from the Legacy of Kain series.
The Soul Reaver skin bears a striking resemblance to the Turian Race from the Mass Effect series when seen ingame, especially the reaper converted Marauders.
Prior to the information of the Gladiator skin leaked from public beta, a similar skin concept for Draven, "Firedancer", has been published by the player Spookypatrol (deviantART user "Dargonite") in the official North American forum. Totally five Riot employees expressed interest to the idea in two separate threads.^[2]
- The skin is also used to celebrate the Italian localization of the client, 24 March 2013.
The Gladiator skin possesses 3 special quotes available only in Italian which are references to the movie "The Gladiator".
- "Al mio segnale,scatenate Draven!" which can be translated to "At my signal,unleash Draven!"
- "Date a Draven ciò che è di Draven... E tutto il resto!" which means "Give Draven what Draven owns... And everything else." , based on the popular sentence "Give Caesar what Caesar owns."
- "Ciò che Draven fa in vita,riecheggia nell'eternità." that means "What Draven does in life, echoes through eternity."

Relations Edit

Draven is Darius' younger brother. The two together are known as "The Blood Brothers",
- The use of Blood Brothers in this context is no relation to the common usage, which is where two non-related males perform a "blood pact".
According to his page on the beta League of Legends website, Draven's relations list him as friends with himself.