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.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
The Draven Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Draven sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Draven perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Draven is paired with Alistar, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Alistar helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Draven is played with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Additionally, when Draven plays with Alistar on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Draven in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Draven that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Alistar is a below average companion for Draven. By locking into the same side as Draven, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 48.4%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Draven and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Draven. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Draven players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Draven and Alistar together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Draven to pair well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Draven and Alistar synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Youmuu's Ghostblade. When Draven combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Alistar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Draven boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Draven players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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