As a Darius main i think they still need to practice with him as the amount of times i've gone "you should have done this" or "you could have done this and gotten the kill" is amazing. They are building him well, but not very well. If you don't agree with me only argue if you have a counter argument. They need to realise that darius is pretty bad pre-6 and that he is very bad pre-Black Cleaver.They just need to take some more time to learn him as a champion.
TurquoiseYoshi4 votesNot only that, but he's being picked blind into a space where literally every pro top laner plays a counter to him.
Zhugan1 votesTHIS is EXACTLY the problem. Why on earth would you first pick a slow, kite-able, melee champion blind without banning Gnar? Why would you opt into that hard of a counterpick when pretty much every top laner in the world should know how to play Gnar and know both how to play, and how to play against, Darius.
Yes, Darius does have something like a 6-2 win rate at Worlds, but his stats are dog shit in a flaming garbage can awful. Darius has been carried in all but like one of his games, and that just isn't what you want with a champion that you are picking in the first rotation.
xJLx MCHammer1 votesTHIS is EXACTLY the problem. Why on earth would you first pick a slow, kite-able, melee champion blind without banning Gnar? Why would you opt into that hard of a counterpick when pretty much every top laner in the world should know how to play Gnar and know both how to play, and how to play against, Darius.
Yes, Darius does have something like a 6-2 win rate at Worlds, but his stats are dog shit in a flaming garbage can awful. Darius has been carried in all but like one of his games, and that just isn't what you want with a champion that you are picking in the first rotation.
The reason his stats are low isn't because he is counter picked. It's because of lane swaps
Zhugan1 votesThe multiple times that Gnar has crapped all over him even when minion kills were even or anything like that. No, that is no indication at all that the counterpick was significant.
xJLx MCHammer1 votesMeh, I don't like to say this always but some of those players play too conservative. But I don't blame them, you can see how much backlash Huni got today for being aggressive. They analyst and this board did let it go
As far as items go. Dead mans, and black cleaver is a huge power spike. So I don't think it's the champion just that mentality being in front of crowd
Ask adc players, they will admit most of them play completely different in solo q. Look how much turtle gets attacked for.
Saphixia1 votesTrue that. Also just watched C9 vs. (cant remember but it was day 3, it was invictus or something idk) and Balls late game darius is actually pretty good!
xJLx MCHammer1 votesTrue that. Also just watched C9 vs. (cant remember but it was day 3, it was invictus or something idk) and Balls late game darius is actually pretty good!
He actually use to play him quite a lot. He is a well known tank player. So I wasn't surprised. it was vs ig
Saphixia1 votesLol didnt know he played Big D but Balls can play with my D anytime
JimmyNtheKudos1 votesThe Darius pick is good, but it's really really really not a good blind pick. Teams need to adapt to this. Most teams that have had a Darius and have won, it wasn't because of the Darius.
Saphixia1 votesLol say that to my 15/3/13 game where my adc was afk for first 15 minutes and got 1 kill, mid got 10, jungle got 3 and support didnt get any
Dr Poro1 votesThis is the Esports forum. He's talking about Esports teams. Are you in an Esport team?
JimmyNtheKudos1 votes^Exactly