Raven Branwen

**Raven Branwen** is a character from the RWBY series. She is the mother of Yang Xiao Long, the older twin sister of Qrow Branwen and the estranged wife of Taiyang Xiao Long. Her weapon of choice is Omen, a sword with a rotary chamber filled with six types of Dust blades.

She is the leader of the Branwen Tribe as well as a former member of Team STRQ. She is also the current Spring Maiden and had been using her fellow tribe member, Vernal, as a decoy.

## Abilities

### Odati Sword Strike

* **Ability:** Point Target
* **Affects:** Enemy Units
* **Damage Type:** Physical
* **Pierces Spell Immunity:** Yes
* **Cooldown:** 30 / 28 / 26 / 24
	+ ***With Talent:*** 25 / 23 / 21 / 19

Raven rushes to the target location while hitting everything around her with **40%** of her attack damage every **0.03** seconds.

* **Speed:** 2000
* **Attack Radius:** 160 / 190 / 220 / 250
* **Max Distance:** 1300 / 1600 / 1900 / 2200

### Transform to Raven

* **Ability:** No Target
* **Dispellable:** Cannot be dispelled
* **Mana Cost:** 140 / 160 / 180 / 200
* **Cooldown:** 32 / 30 / 28 / 26

Transform into a raven for a duration. Enables flight, grants high movespeed and a chance to dodge any damage. Also activates **Spring Maiden** for the duration regardless of its cooldown.

Can be used again to transform back.

* **Duration:** 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5
* **Dodge Chance:** 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%
	+ ***With Talent:*** 15% / 20% / 25% / 30%
* **Movespeed:** 550 / 600 / 650 / 700

### Spring Maiden

* **Ability:** Passive
* **Pierces Spell Immunity:** Yes
* **Dispellable:** Yes
	+ ***With Talent:*** Cannot be dispelled
* **Cooldown:** 9 / 8 / 7 / 6
	+ ***With Talent:*** 8 / 7 / 6 / 5

When attacking, Raven has a chance to gain magic immunity while simultaneously disarming the opponent. Also removes negative status effects if the damage taken crosses a threshold.

* **Magic Immunity Duration:** 1
	+ ***With Talent:*** 1.5
* **Disarm Duration:** 1
	+ ***With Talent:*** 1.5
* **Chance:** 10% / 15% / 20% / 25%
	+ ***With Talent:*** 15% / 20% / 25% / 30%
* **Purge Damage Threshold:** 800
	+ ***With Talent:*** 750

*Raven's spring maiden powers give her a strong combat advantage.*

### Portal Bond

* **Learnable at levels 6 / 12 / 18**
* **Ability:** Unit Target
* **Affects:** Heroes
* **Pierces Spell Immunity:** Yes
* **Cooldown:** 36 / 28 / 20

Allows Raven to teleport to any hero on the map, enemy or ally. After teleporting, Spring Maiden will be activated for 5 seconds without going on cooldown.

### Talents / Aghanims Scepter Upgrade

 -5s Odati Sword Strike Cooldown
 +5% Transform To Raven Dodge Chance
 -50 Spring Maiden Purge Damage Threshold

## Guides

### Raven Guide

Raven Branwen (09/24/2020)

\*I suggest you to try Solo Kill build first.

Rush Agha (Q Mode) (Mess)

> Stater Boots.

> Aghanim - Daedalus – DragonSlayer - Spectator - Murasame - Satanic – Eye of Skadi / LostVayne.

You can buy Satanic first before Murasame if no evasion hero, remember to consume moon shard.

Solo Kill (Tested by **Rinz**, Idea from **Equals**, **Shalmon**, **Nyx**, and **Selrize**).

> Start with Power Threads Boots and sell it later.

> Amon – Bloodthorn / Murasame – Nullifier / Diffusal – Spectator – Manta+ – Abyysal

> Alternative -> Lostvayne - Abyssal - Pumpkin - Dual Swords - Murasame - Skadi.

> You can try Scythe of Vyse for this build.

Magic Raven (**Shalmun** **:pepehand:**).

> Red Stone - Pumpkin - Octarine - Hamon - Mjolnir / Murasame - Agha / Kurumi Clock/ Ethereal Blade.

> Another version : Pumpkin -> Blademail, Mjolnir -> Tarras.

Skill & Talent

> Q W E W W [R] E Q W \*RT E [R] E Q Q\*RT [R] \*RT \*LT

* \*Right Talent \*Left Talent

Tips

> Around Lv15, I think you’ll not have mana problem again.

> You can easily steal Treasures with your Q. The timing is important or you’ll be knockback by Treasure.

> If you can't win (Your HP↓25%)... use your W and Q to run/hide then teleport back to base.

> Illusion from LostVayne can triggers *Spring Maiden* (Disarm).

> Raven still teleport to target even the target die (do illusion trick if you bought LostVayne).

> You will be found out that Raven quite paper if you can't land any attack (need proc Spring Maiden for safely),

and you have problem to chase foes without active items. If you use her skills, you have new problem because you don't have any skill to escape.

> If you found someone bought Linked Sphere, you can buy Eye of Steady and place any wards around them so you can teleport to your Wards.

*\*Comment : eww wards, Booli.*

> You can put 1 Sentry ward on your base. So... you can use *[R]Portal Bond* to base faster rather than using Town Portal Scrolls.

> Just Reminder, Raven have Mv Spd around 295 compare to others (especially if they buy BoT). So... you can't catch up just by walking lol.

Personal opinion.... best critical for Raven only Daedalus. Reason Constant Crit Dmg no Mv Spd penalty. But Dual Swords have High Damage and Atk Spd, so at least you need something that makes enemies slow if you using Dual Swords. But right now Raven need more attack speed (Need below 0.35 second per attack) to slap your opponent into Shadow Realms.