Top 7 Best Supports for Draven in Season 12

Draven is one of the few marksmen that wasn’t majorly affected by the mythic item changes in season 12. His overall dominating laning phase got a bit enhanced and now he is one of the strongest champions to carry games with. But Draven isn’t a self-sufficient champion and he lacks many important elements, such as mobility and defensiveness. And that’s where the best supports for Draven come into play!

Draven should be and often is the bully in the bot lane. He prefers supports that are either hyper-aggressive or champions that can protect him while he’s being aggressive. But there are clear winners in both of these categories, so let’s talk about the top 7 best supports for Draven in season 12 of League of Legends!

1. Thresh

Thresh is one of the most popular supports in League of Legends. But he is also one of the best champions to play in combination with Draven. Almost all of the tools that Thresh brings to the table can in some way enhance Draven’s performance. So let’s examine them.

One of the most notable things about Thresh is his crowd control. His long-range Q can catch enemies off guard and help Thresh bounce them back with E or slow them down with R. This allows Draven to continually hit their opponents until they die. One of the biggest weaknesses of Draven is the inability to CC targets, so Thresh solves that in a way.

But Thresh has one more key thing – his lantern. This is one of the best mobility spells that a support champion can offer to his allies. The lantern helps Draven escape sticky situations or quickly reach his targets. These two champions can play very aggressively as long as the Thresh player is experienced in landing hooks and throwing lanterns in the right spots.

2. Blitzcrank

Blitzcrank and Draven have a very similar playstyle to Thresh and Draven. But Blitzcrank is a much simpler champion than his support rival so the combo between him and Draven is way easier to execute.

For example, the easiest way to get a kill as Blitzcrank and Draven is to pull someone towards you with Q and knock him up with E. This is enough crowd control for any stage of the game, simply because of how much damage Draven can do. And you can repeat this process throughout the match.

Many players agree that Blitz has an advantage over Thresh when supporting Draven because his Q displaces the target, rather than locking him into place. Any champion that can bring squishy targets to Draven and hold them down is a good support, but Blitz simply excels at it.

And let’s not forget Blitzcrank’s ultimate. His silence is another form of CC because it also stops champions from using Flash too. All in all, Blitz is one of the best supports to choose whenever you see Draven locked in a solo queue.

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3. Nami

Nami isn’t anywhere near to Thresh or Blitz in terms of playstyle, but she can aid Draven in different ways. Remember, Draven can also be paired with supportive champions, such as Soraka, Janna, or Lulu. But Nami is simply the best for supporting him in particular. 

The most important thing that Nami brings to this combo is her heal. This is both a defensive and an offensive ability since the healing wave bounces off both allies and enemies. Experienced Nami players will always look to damage enemies while healing their allies. And since Draven doesn’t have any poke damage except his auto-attacks, this is great for trading early on in lane.

But Nami also offers two different knock-up effects. Both her Q and R have considerably long range and can be used for either engaging or disengaging. 

And the last thing that not too many players abuse as Nami is her E ability. Whenever used, this spell enhances the next 3 attacks of herself or her chosen allies. These 3 attacks deal bonus damage, but also apply a slow effect on the enemy for 1 second. You can clearly see why this is a huge benefit for Draven in any type of scenario.

4. Leona

When talking about locking down an enemy in place, few can do it as well as Leona. Her E Q combo is quite lengthy. Add in her ultimate after reaching level 6 and your target will not stand a chance, Draven will have too much freedom to deal absurd amounts of damage to a target that will not even be able to trade back.

A really good added bonus is that Leona is inherently very tanky thanks to her W. There’s almost no way the enemy can hope to burst her down, and given her Q has a relatively low cooldown, extended trades would be heavily beneficial for the Draven and Leona duo.

5. Soraka

Draven likes being aggressive, but he doesn’t have the biggest of ranges, meaning he often finds himself getting slapped back when he goes in to poke a bit. Soraka will help mitigate any sort of damage Draven receives in such trades.

Another sweet trading tool Soraka brings to the table is her silence. This will block enemy champions from using any abilities, meaning hard engage supports such as Pyke or even Pantheon will not be able to jump on top of either laner as long as they are inside the abilities area of effect.

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6. Pyke

Well, we did just say he was a hard engaging support right? Draven loves this type of company, as it helps him get into fights more often. Pyke is sort of a more aggressive, damage-heavy hooking support, so while he does not really have much utility such as Thresh’s lantern, for example, Pyke does excel at dealing damage and bursting down squishies.

His ultimate is fantastic as well, it is an execute that gives the full amount of kill gold to whoever was the most recent ally to damage the enemy and get the assist. This gets even better because this stacks with Draven’s passive. You read that right, should an enemy die to this duo, Pyke’s R will grant Draven the full amount of gold from the kill, and Draven himself will have his passive triggered, making this duo a phenomenal gold snowball.

7. Nautilus

I guess we can summarize and say Draven quite enjoys a support that has a hook. Similar to the hooking supports above, Nautilus has good engage potential and can lock a target down for Draven to fling axes at the target.

His point and click ult serves as a fantastic initiation tool, especially if Nautilus is able to follow up with his Q and passive root. As a natural tank, Nautilus is able to soak up a lot of retaliation damage for Draven.

And those are the top 7 best supports for Draven in season 12 of League of Legends!