Vanguard Draven

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.2 on average.

Play it when

you hold Recurve Bow and B.F. Sword, and nobody else is on Draven (it placed #5.29 then, #5.87 against two or more)

Roll

Level 9 around 5-1: about 33 rolls (66 gold) to 2-star Draven; about 54 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Build

Draven Guinsoo's Rageblade, Infinity Edge, Kraken's Fury · 31 games · #6.23

Components

Recurve Bow ×2 · B.F. Sword · Needlessly Large Rod · Negatron Cloak · Sparring Gloves

Contested?

Others holding Draven: nobody else: #5.29 · 1 other: #5.53 · 2+ others: #5.87

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.7 · stage 5: 8.8 · stage 6: 9.2

Games end

Lv 8 17% · Lv 9 72% · Lv 10 9%

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Final board

The whole board at level 9, where most of its games end. The core — the units on most of this family’s boards — at the star level and with the items they were measured holding; then the flex slots, dashed, with the unit its boards put there most. A slot no unit holds on a quarter of its boards is open. Under a unit, or: the champions its boards play in that slot instead, measured on its level-9 boards this patch.

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Riot's match data records no positions, so this board is placed by rule from each champion's attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, and the carries holding the most items in the back corners. The level buttons show the board at each level: the dashed ones are planned by rule (see How it’s played), the rest measured.

5Draven★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Kraken's Fury
• Infinity Edge

carry

5Ivern★

or

• Ashe

5Maokai★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Spirit Visage

5Taric★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor

4Sentinel★

• Protector's Vow
• Gargoyle Stoneplate

3Hecarim★★

or

• Kennen

1Rakan★★

3Dianaflex

2Eliseflex

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How it’s played

Where this comp’s games end, and its board at every level from 4, each with what it added and sold since the level above and the traits it has live (hover one for what it does). Level 8 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (1,227 games). Riot’s match data keeps only that last board, so the levels below are planned by one rule from this comp’s own units and traits and Riot’s shop odds, and marked plan — how the rule works. Rows marked real are the boards of the games that went out at that level holding four or more of this comp’s units — real boards on the way to it, not its own games.

Lv 4plan32Draven’s items on Elise

Lv 5planAdded322Draven’s items on Xayah

Lv 6realAddedSold5

Lv 7realAdded532

Lv 817%AddedSold111152

Lv 972%Added611112

Lv 109%AddedSold11111532

Not a reroll comp: nothing is 3-starred on even 1 board in 5.

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.7 · stage 5: 8.8 · stage 6: 9.2

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Draven, over 491 games of this patch. We keep all eight boards of every game, so this is measured, not guessed; part of the gap is the lobby itself, so read it as how it placed, not only why.

Items

The three items this comp’s carry was measured holding most often, the placement of the boards it held them on, and the difference against the comp’s own average. Every board of the family, all ranks.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Draven	Guinsoo's Rageblade	#5.46	+0.02	775
Draven	Kraken's Fury	#5.39	-0.06	413
Draven	Infinity Edge	#5.25	-0.20	361

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

Champion	Build	Avg Place	Games
Draven	Guinsoo's RagebladeInfinity EdgeKraken's Fury	#6.23	31

Components to hold Recurve Bow ×2, B.F. Sword, Needlessly Large Rod, Negatron Cloak, Sparring Gloves

At the top of the ladder

The newest boards of this comp from the players on our leaderboard, with where they placed. A name opens that player’s games, board and items included.

1. #1T2010T#CKTGChallenger · 1,367 LP · level 9 · 2026-09-27
2. #7MKOI Dalesom#EUW2Challenger · 1,421 LP · level 9 · out at 5-2 · 2026-09-24

Variations

Cores close enough to this one to be the same comp. Each line is what that version plays instead, how it placed and the games behind it; all of them are counted in the numbers above.

…and 1 smaller version, 28 games between them. All of them are already counted in the numbers above; they are left off because no one of them is played often enough to plan around.

Traits

Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Vanguard4next 6Juggernaut2next 4Bounty Seeker1Emerald Aspect1Greenfather1Old Growth1Elderwood1next 3Fae1next 2Invoker1next 2Riftbeast1next 3

What each tier of this comp’s own traits was worth on its boards. The small number under each average is how many boards sat at that tier.

By bracket

Diamond, Master, Grandmaster and Challenger against the whole sample. Each board carries the tier of its own player where the sampler held it.

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 6 days. The bars are scaled to the range shown, so the shape is the comparison and the figure under each bar is the day.

Also played

Families sharing at least 4 core units with this one — the same board taken a different way.

Augments

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so no augment has a number of its own on this page or anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.