Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
The stats provided here underscore some influential Viktor versus Draven matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Draven’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Draven..
Viktor often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Draven. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually fairs equally well when taking on Draven, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Viktor makes an ok counter for Draven.
While Viktor does have a lower winrate than Draven, when on opposite teams, Viktor also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Viktor into Dravenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Viktor has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Draven. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Draven matchups, Draven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Viktor is a somewhat poor counter for Draven. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Viktor against Draven.
To truly master Viktor in order to counter Draven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor most often gets a similar amount of CS as Draven. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Viktor versus Draven build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Viktor bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Draven than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing against Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Draven as Viktor, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Viktor vs Draven clashes, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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