Chemtech Drake

Dragon types: Chemtech Drake, Cloud Drake, Hextech Drake, Infernal Drake, Mountain Drake, Ocean Drake, Elder Dragon.

See also: Dragon pit, Dragon Slayer.

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Chemtech Drake
A ranged attacker that attacks faster the lower its health gets. It can only damage a single champion.
Bounty
Gold	25
Exp	150 − 330 (based on level)
CS	4
Statistics
Health	4090 − 6970 (based on level) / 5790 − 8670 (based on level)
Attack damage	50
Attack speed	0.5
Range	500
Armor	21
Magic res.	30
Mov. speed	330
Monster type	Epic, Large
Location
Camp	Dragon pit
Initial	5:00

Chemtech Drake is a neutral monster on Summoner's Rift. Chemtech Drake gains 0% − 200% (based on missing health) bonus attack speed.

Each Chemtech Drake killed grants a stack of Chemtech Blight.

If the rift is dominated by the Chemtech, obtaining 4 Dragon Slayer stacks grants the Chemtech Dragon Soul.

Features

Passives

• Resistant Skin: Dragons are immune to all crowd control, except stasis. Additionally, Dragons' stats cannot be modified by any means.
• Ancient Grudge: Elemental Dragons gain 20% bonus damage and 7% damage reduction per stack against enemies with Dragon Slayer stacks, up to 80% bonus damage and 28% damage reduction.
• Dragon Breath: Dragons deal bonus physical damage equal to 7% of the target's current health with their basic attacks. Additionally, Dragons gain 30% armor penetration.

Abilities

• Taking Flight: Dragons knock back all nearby enemies upon starting the fight.

Notes

• Dragons' basic attacks are considered spells - they're unaffected by any effect that would behave with basic attacks, and can be negated by spell shields.
• Dragons cannot damage other monsters.
• If the team that slays a dragon has a lower average level than that of their opponents, they receive 25% bonus experience per average level difference. The bonus experience is sharply increased for the lowest level members of the team, equal to 15% per number of levels behind the dragon squared, up to a maximum of 200%.
• The following table refers for interactions while a champion is channeling Hexgate Warp:

Type		Channel
Attacking		Interrupts
Abilities		Interrupts
Movement		Interrupts
Items	Usable	Shurelya's Battlesong Turbo Chemtank Youmuu's Ghostblade Gargoyle Stoneplate Randuin's Omen
	Disabled	Hextech Rocketbelt
	Interrupted by	All item-actives not specified above interrupt
Consumables		Usable
Spells	Usable	Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
	Disabled	N/A
	Interrupted by	Flash Teleport Recall Hexflash
Interrupted by		Damaging effects Death Grounding effects Cast-inhibiting effects

• The following table refers for interactions while a champion is locked out from traveling through a hex-gate:
  • All summoner spells are disabled if the blink location wasn't designated elsewhere.

Type		Channel
Attacking		Disabled
Abilities		Disabled
Movement		Disabled
Items	Usable	N/A
	Disabled	All items are disabled
	Interrupted by	N/A
Consumables		Disabled
Spells	Usable	Barrier Clarity Cleanse Exhaust Ghost Heal Ignite Smite
	Disabled	Flash Teleport Recall Hexflash
	Interrupted by	N/A
Interrupted by		Death

Strategy

• Killing dragons is one of the main tasks of the Jungler. Junglers often require assistance from their team for this task, and the champions best positioned to provide this assistance are usually the mid laners and bottom laners.
• When a team attempts to kill a dragon it usually gets weakened during the fight. Given the nature of the dragon pit, the team attempting the kill has limited escape paths. For this reason it's usually a good idea to gank the enemy team when they're trying to kill a dragon. A good gank may score several kills, steal the dragon kill, or both.
• Dragons (and other epic monsters) should be finished with effects that instantly deal a high amount of damage (i.e. Smite, Cho'Gath's Feast, Nunu's Consume) to prevent the enemy team from stealing the kill.
• When initially attacked, dragons will knock back every nearby champion, and begin attacking and chasing the closest champion. Attacking the dragon from a safe distance to get it to attack an unprepared enemy champion can be useful.

Tips to prepare dragon ganks

• Have a ward in the river close to the dragon camp entrance, providing complete vision of the pit. This will reveal enemies attempting to kill the dragon while also spotting enemies standing guard at the entrance. Killing the Rift Scuttler is a good way to provide vision in front of the dragon pit, but it does not provide vision inside the pit itself.

Tips to prevent dragon ganks

• Use a Control Ward or Oracle Lens to check for wards before attempting to kill a dragon, do not destroy wards unless you absolutely must eliminate their vision.
• Eliminate the bottom lane enemies and then attack the dragon with the help of your bottom lane teammates. The enemy middle lane and jungler are usually not strong enough to fight three champions at once.
• While on the red team, lure the dragon out of its pit. This makes the dragon chase you into the river, making it harder for the enemy team to steal it by engaging over the wall of the dragon pit.

Benefits of Dragon Slayer

The stacking buffs provided by Dragon Slayer grant powerful effects which boost the overall strength of champions that are empowered by them.

• Chemtech Drake's buff gives the opportunity for a team to turn a fight around as they gain increased damage against enemies that are certainly higher health than them. The amplified damage is all that makes the difference in taking an enemy down before they have a chance to.
• Cloud Drake's buff speeds up a team as they move across the map faster than their enemies can. It gives a team enough time to head towards an important objective and gain control over it. The decreased slow effectiveness also helps with outrunning a chase.
• Hextech Drake's buff greatly increases the attack output of a team as their cooldowns come up quicker and their attacks come out rapidly.
• Infernal Drake's buff becomes more and more effective as a game continues as a team builds up their stats, with the buff giving even more stats which in turn leads to a massive boost in attack power.
• Mountain Drake's buff toughens up a team and allows them to take more extended fights, making it difficult for the opposition to deal with.
• Ocean Drake's buff restores tons of health after having taken lots of damage. It is particularly useful for taking down an objective after a skirmish as the team will restore their health overtime and be healthy in time for the next fight.

References

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