It's probably because his team actually helped him, and that Balls was able to start getting ult resets in the final teamfight.
Or maybe because Huni picked Yasuo into Darius (instead of maybe Gnar) and Febiven picked Ori into Azir (I think LB would have worked much better).
Mazohist15 votesyasuo into darius is such a bad idea...
Only Play Darius6 votesPicked Yasuo top into Darius and expected something good to happen.
lol
Stars Shaper5 votesAnd because they picked Yasuo into him.
Mat7itan4 votesThe ori wasn't a bad pick with the team comp because were so many ways to deliver the ball, but the yasuo pick was just stupid.
TurquoiseYoshi3 votesI would have preferred to see LeBlanc, since Azir is pretty weak to assassins. Even Faker had some trouble in that matchup against Ryu.
YCitizenSnipsY3 votesIt really helps as a Darius when the entire team blows all their teamfighting ults as an engage on to you, putting themselves on top of you and within reach of Noxus Might.
The Bíg Ticket3 votesDarius is 8-5 btw...despite being blindpicked first rotation all the time.
TurquoiseYoshi10 votesBecause he's getting carried. You cannot tell me that a Darius has looked good in a match before now.
Mazohist1 votesbecause he can 1v1 anyone on the planet. seriously... try 1v1ing darius, its impossible, if you want to stop him you need to have 2 people on him at least, and thats the problem.
TurquoiseYoshi6 votesUnless you're a ranged top, all of which shit on Darius.
macromite3 votesor trundle, I've shit all over many a darius as trundle. in fact trundle is an acceptable counter to any of the juggernauts, or fiora.
TurquoiseYoshi1 votesTo be fair, Trundle is pretty much a counter to everything in some way.
macromite1 votesand yet almost no one plays him.
Earl Eulrich1 votestry tahm once, there´s no melee in this game that can 1v1 tahm a little into the game. If you really want to play a juggernaut Tahm is #1.
macromite1 votestoo my knowledge nothing can 1v1 a trundle, trundle stealing stats is pretty op, especially if you can trap them onto your frozen domain using your pillar, then you can pretty much fight any other non-broken champion an get away with more health than what you started with.
ShatteredSkys1 votesbecause he can 1v1 anyone on the planet. seriously... try 1v1ing darius, its impossible, if you want to stop him you need to have 2 people on him at least, and thats the problem.
He has ALWAYS been like this. It was near impossible to 1 v 1 the ult Darius as melee and even ranged champions had problems. However there are champions that can duel him and win, Kayle, Malzahar, and Tryndamere(?) just no meta top laners.
Environmentalist1 votesThat was a wicked ending
Krinu1 votesYeah, as Kayle, I always love seeing Darius - it's like "okay, so, there's an extra big minion that trash talks me in allchat...?"
High51 votesH2k failed blanc into azir. Lost the game because of it when they got behind.
Yas into Dar was a bad pick too. Having said that, Balls played well and as much as I hate to say it, C9 prepared well and looks like a team.
The best prepared teams are winning and C9 is right with Origen and SKT in terms of good results.
TurquoiseYoshi1 votesThe H2K LeBlanc pick only failed because Ryu didn't play it well, since he just wanted to 1v1 Faker. Against Incarnati0n, I think a LB pick could really work.
Acidic Puddle1 votesMore than one darius has worked you ignorant pleb.
TurquoiseYoshi2 votesNo Darius worked as well as the teams have been rating it until now. It's just gotten carried a lot.
Earl Eulrich1 votesFebiven picked Ori into Azir (I think LB would have worked much better).
LB would have been much riskier. An intelligent pick would have been Varus, as Azir is goddamn weak to poke and fairly easy to catch out with Varus ult...or any other poke-mid. C9s Comp had been happily waiting for their opponents to come to them, but they did not posses many tools to actually engage on a poke-comp.
TurquoiseYoshi1 votesVarus would be a bit too much AD. I liked the idea of LB since it honestly does very well against Azir. I mean, if they are considering Yasuo, I can't see LB being that risky by comparison.
Earl Eulrich1 voteswell yea, wouldn´t have picked the Yasuo anyway...just shows how off Fnatics pick&ban atm is. I hope they fix that during the break so both C9 and Fnatic can survive the group-phase.