"fighter rework" was just a excuse to nerf 4 champions and armor items

Honestly Garen wasn't hit that hard. The passive nerf was small and honestly earned, the shear amount of damage E does now is more than enough to make up for the lack of crit, and the ult does actually have an indicator when targeting your villain.

W was a straight up nerf, however.

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Better hope the enemy laner won't just walk the fuck away while charging it up, since most top laners have higher fucking movement speed than you do.

Not exactly any different than current darius then, innit?

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Darius is hands down stronger. Only true nerfs are the wind up on his Q and the removal of his attack speed slow on W. For that he gets an ok heal on Q, an attack damage bleed, 200 AD and instant max bleed stacks for 5 seconds after killing a target with Ult or with max bleed.

Garen got hit hard.... passive nerfed, w mega nerfed (shit stacking mechanic with a cap... a LOW cap and no tenacity), E no longer crits but does more damage at higher levels. Ult and auto attacks gain situational true damage.. meh still no indicator for whether the ult will kill the target or not.

Actually does have an execute indicator for villain.

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Garen got hit hard.... passive nerfed, w mega nerfed (shit stacking mechanic with a cap... a LOW cap and no tenacity), E no longer crits but does more damage at higher levels. Ult and auto attacks gain situational true damage.. meh still no indicator for whether the ult will kill the target or not.

you forgot the nerf to the silence and the 20% slow on the spin. both significant nerfs.

his ult has an indicator for the villain. overall the villain mechanic is an extremely situational buff, and he loast a lot of reliable parts from his kit for it, that profit him at all times.

well Darius also lost 75% of his early game dmg.. I used him to fuck with Riven but i'm not sure he'll sill be able to do it. also his "insane" passive is really hard to use, you have to get a kill in TeamFight and you have 5 seconds to walk up to someone else. It will happen once or twice in a game at best.

If I gotta be honest, I actually like the wind-up on his Q because it makes it easier to hit. It's easier to avoid, sort of, but easier to hit because YOU can see where the blade is going to hit, something I don't believe his opponents get to see.

Riven laughs at garen now

Darius was nerfed much harder than you think. Not only does his Q have a wind up meaning any champion with a dash like Riven or Renekton can avoid it easily, it deals significantly less damage. His bleed was also nerfed into the ground, it now deals physical damage, less damage, and no longer gives Darius ms. His ult damage was also hit hard. Buffing his damage after applying 5 stacks is not nearly compensation.

His Q nerf is extremely huge. It's the difference for Darius being able to 1v1 a Riven evenly, to now it's extremely in her favour. Darius needs fast cast times to compete against mobile champions. Neither does she need stacks to deal massive damage, AoE damage at that. Playing the new Darius is just handicapping yourself.

Darius is weaker at all times unless he is able to get 5 stacks on a target or kill someone Darius Q at rank 5 requires 250 BONUS AD at level 18 to get as good as the current one (50 AD if he currently has his passive active)

At rank 1 Q deals 29 less damage (and the AD ratio is lower so no matter what the new damage won't get as good as the old one)

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I'm honestly not exactly sure how Darius' changes are a buff. They didn't just make his laning less powerful, they gutted it. There's a hilarious delay on his Q now, and his attack speed was nuked from orbit to make it much harder to apply stacks of hemorrhage, which is also weaker on its own now. For his new AD steroid everything about him was gutted badly. The only way you're going to be getting to use it in a team fight is by kill stealing your ally with your ult, which won't really help you carry a losing team.

You realize you can move while winding up Q, yeah?

200 ad and insta full passive stacks if you get even a single kill or 5 stack in a fight which allows you to get more kills or re-apply the 5 stacks refreshing the buff duration. Shits brutal, literally 2.5 bloodthirsters of damage.

Hmm let's see how big of a difference there is at level 18

Base Attack Speed reduced to 0.625 from 0.679 Attack Speed per level reduced to 1% from 4%

Old attack speed 4% X 17 = 68% 0.679 X 1.68 = 1.14 attacks per second at level 18

New attack speed 1% X 17% = 17% 0.625 X 1.17 = 0.73 attacks per second at level 18

Oh and keep in mind that any other items or such that would increase attack speed would push things even further in the favor of the old attack speed as it has a higher base attack speed

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only darius was buffed, skarner passive is just an april fool passive

Passive's gimmicky as hell, yes, but he gets a better shield, better damage ratios, and a somewhat more reliable stun. And the new bruiser items that we know about at present (rage gage amplifies sheen procs too. That'll be nice. Probably not as nice as it'll be for irelia, though)

like I said, dunno. Need some hands-on to come to a conclusion.

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only darius was buffed, skarner passive is just an april fool passive

Actually, if you read it, it is a massive nerf. His Q got nerfed, His W got nerfed, His E got nerfed (doesn't matter if it was a bug, it is a nerf to his stick potential ),his R damage got nerfed, his passive deals physical damage and deals less damage.

If you think veigar is trash, maybe it's you.

Skarner is NOT getting a buff. They moved his stun to his E, which still has its high cooldown, making it harder to stick to enemies. Current Skarner can stack his stun on multiple targets and doesn't have to rely on such a high-cooldown spell. Also, repeated Q hits give you less of a buff, and the shrines won't do anything 75% of the time.