Talk:Draven/@comment-24992423-20150610064912/@comment-4068613-20150610201512

The issue is mostly is that he can't just sit there and wail on someone until they die. His axes hit like a truck full of bricks, but they're gated by his ability to catch them, which means both that he frequently has to run either directly into danger or directly away from the fight, and that he has to spend a lot of time running instead of attacking.

His MS/AS steroid from his W just barely makes up for all the time and distance lost catching axes, so the AS buff doesn't translate into damage as directly as it does on other carries.

His axes will deal hilarious amounts of damage in the late game, but not as much as the two or three attacks Varus or Vayne would be able to get off in the time it took him to catch his second axe. That, and BotRK doesn't scale well with him due to his poor synergy with attack speed and generally low number of basic attacks thrown per second due to the axe catching.

All that, in combination with his lack of innate % damage, true damage, magic damage, or armor pen means that armor is 100% effective against all of his damage, and thornmail reflects huge damage back to him, rendering him a very poor tankbuster.