If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several critical Draven against Lissandra counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Draven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Draven may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lissandra. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Draven often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Draven usually wins when taking on Lissandra, with a 53.4% win rate. As a result, Draven makes a great counter to Lissandra.
While Draven does have a higher win rate compared to Lissandra, when facing one another, Draven also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Draven into Lissandraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Draven has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Draven vs Lissandra matchups, Draven is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Draven is a great counter for Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Draven against Lissandra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Draven to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Draven usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Lissandra. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Draven versus Lissandra build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Bloodthirster. When Draven incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Lissandra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Draven had an average win rate of 53.4% battling Lissandra with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Lissandra as Draven, Draven players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Draven vs Lissandra matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.4% winrate overall.
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