Talk:Draven/@comment-95.91.73.74-20120530210059/@comment-99.59.255.173-20120531043343

If you read the Sneak Peak on League Craft (linked at the bottom of this page in "references") Draven's lore is further explained. The description as "gladiatorial combat" is a bit off. Unless you remember that in gladiator fights it was usually a sponsored, well armed superstar gladiator (armor, nets, helmets, tridents, spears) versus random scraggly prisoners with one rusty gladius (roman short sword).

Regardless, the lore describes him as a literal executioner, who puts his victims through a gauntlet of sorts only to kill them with one throw of an axe just as they think they're going to get away (which makes his status as a ranged ad carry less surprising).