Stop buffing Darius

leakinb··22 votes·1,580 views
Darius stats - League of Legends

I just don't get why Riot would buff Darius while he is sitting at 50% WR and 7% PR with 15%BanRate His kit is already dealing much dmg, the problem is that he is melt in seconds (Look at ADCs insane dmg) You are only making him more cancerous, without solving the true problem Look at DrMundo and Mordekaiser , Both of them are sitting at ard 46~48%WR and 1%PR for fcking 2 seasons and seems they are NOT getting anything Lmao, may be pushing him over 50%WR is the balance standard of Darius [zombie-brand-clap]

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Jo0o11 votes

I used to love playing Darius, but lately I just feel ridiculously weak with him. I can't survive long enough in a team fight to accomplish anything, I lose duels even when I manage to stack my passive all the way, and I just get kited out.

My failures with him are probably more my lack of skill than anything else, but he certainly feels a lot less dominant than he did last season. I imagine that's why he's getting buffs.

Lil Homie busta5 votes

I agree with you, although i think he does needs buffs. But increasing his damage numbers is the wrong way to do it. They need to reduce Q's cast time and increase his attack speed so he can stack his passive before get melted.

Ralik0984 votes

I agree, stop buffing things and just solve the games problems through mostly nerfing things. Stop power creeping the game please.

The Darius King4 votes

I personally love it (totally not biased or anything)

Triumphant Glory3 votes

Personally , playing against Darius make me laught because i usually shit on him (Garen )

Hey h0w r ya8 votes

As Somebody who one tricked Darius to D3, Garen is one of Darius's easiest matchups

Lil Homie busta1 votes

It's a skill matchup. Both can win (laning phase wise), it depends on the mind games such as last-hit faking, predicting Darius Q, choosing the right time to trade, baiting Garen to use his W early, etc rather than other skill matchups that depend on mechanical skill (riven vs yasuo).

Hey h0w r ya3 votes

Garen has an extremely linear play style that is really easy to play around. You always know exactly what he is going to do.

Garen is booty cheeks in extended trades, and Darius forces you to have extended trades, Garen will win trades for 2-3 seconds and anything after that he is either flashing or dead.

Not to mention Darius can take ignite, Take his W first, and level 1 cheese garen. Works like 90 percent of games and you will get first blood or their flash.

I honestly don't think i have ever lost this matchup without serious jungle interference

Triumphant Glory1 votes

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Garen has an extremely linear play style that is really easy to play around. You always know exactly what he is going to do.

Garen is booty cheeks in extended trades, and Darius forces you to have extended trades, Garen will win trades for 2-3 seconds and anything after that he is either flashing or dead.

Not to mention Darius can take ignite, Take his W first, and level 1 cheese garen. Works like 90 percent of games and you will get first blood or their flash.

I honestly don't think i have ever lost this matchup without serious jungle interference

Garen usually take ignite as well. Also Darius Q is avoidable, and if you can't just sit on top of him so he do zero damage neither heal himself. Silence counter Darius kit, you just got to play arround it. People say Garen is the easiest matchup but i've saw alot of Garen player say the same about Darius being the easiest matchup. As Garen you need to capitalize on your opponent mistakes( Push the wave under your towers, attack you over taking creeps and drawing the minions aggro, taking turret shots and basically staying overextended and wasting their mana). A Darius would try to always go aggro tell me one thing, let him push the wave under tower so i can farm to safety and if he try to trade, you punish him hard. Don't try to duel Darius toe to toe, it won't work. It require patience and good reactions. Darius goes for a Q? Back off a bit and hard engage on him with Q. He try to E you in ? Bait his E and proceed to silence him with a few spins and back off. He is under 40% health with low mana bar ? Bait his Q and all in. There is nothing Darius can do as he is immobile.

AirKingNeo3 votes

because he's a fucking terrible champion who has gotten random nerfs over the past 2 years despite being underpowered?

Sohleks3 votes

I do agree that his larger issues are systematic and a straight champion buff can't be the whole story though a buff is nice for him.

Does strike me funny when a sea of immobile juggernauts like him struggle but they just throw out random champion buffs rather than fix the game

DragonShea1 votes

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I do agree that his larger issues are systematic and a straight champion buff can't be the whole story though a buff is nice for him.

Does strike me funny when a sea of immobile juggernauts like him struggle but they just throw out random champion buffs rather than fix the game

True. The newer/reworked juggs actually have more range, even nasus got some range on his abilities. Illaoi Yorick and urgot got one ability that is a ranged ability, it's slow, but it has to be in order to make them balance due to their raw melee power. Other juggs like DrMundo Garen Udyr and Volibear have a movement speed boosting ability to close the gap and with smart play, even negate kiting. But Darius's really issue is his lack of effective gap closing abilities, his E is a measly 535 range and most ranged are 550 and know that being closer than 500 range is a bad idea.

FOR JUSTICE2 votes

mechanically simple champions have much higher winrates because nobody plays them. and when they do, they win. because simplicity.

Sasogwa1 votes

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mechanically simple champions have much higher winrates because nobody plays them. and when they do, they win. because simplicity.

But Mundo isn't mechanically intensive, and his winrate is quite worse than Darius's according to OP

FOR JUSTICE1 votes

I said mechanically simple, not brainded

lol

Gavlerius2 votes

Darius's Q can be completely shit as it wont heal you the same vs: tanks/squishies/5 enemies! His q should heal up a huge part of his hp bar vs 5 people if you consider his basic weakness being cc chain which makes Darius players hard to hit someone in order to survive and stay alive during a hard 5v5 TF.Also Darius's passive gives a ton of free extra ad and some bleed but those bois Malphite Ornn Maokai are laughing to Darius's "TRUE" dmg.Darius is and maybe will keep being weak vs super-tanks and cc chains.

T4underbolt1 votes

That sounds stupid. Chain cc it's his weakness? Wow. Let me use all my team's cc for tanky target while enemy assassin and other players from Darius team oblidarate our carries.

Gavlerius1 votes

That can work,but not in low elo or past 30 level(im 29 atm)its hard for someone to understand what is Darius's role in teamfights and how to keep him alive

FCJAAAAGOOOO2 votes

Darius is going to destroy mid, top and jung if those buffs go live. Moreso than he already can.

And then have more gold to build Omen, Sterak's and Tabi to survive marksmen. So he'll become OP.

Then they'll either re-nerf him or nerf Omen and Tabi and kill the game. Whoopdedoo.

T4underbolt1 votes

While I agree the way they buff Darius is wrong, tabi especially need nerfs. So does most of tank items.

MrPhamtom2 votes

but Darius is complete trash

except in low elo

he actually does need buffs

Dokkaebi1 votes

There's an easy solution to make him viable in every elo; Make his abilities less telegraphed and reduce his damage. He is too weak in high elo because his abilities are so telegraphed. He is too strong in low elo because of how high damage he does.

TyroneWatermelon1 votes

Riot seems to randomly pick a few champions every season to focus the balance around them, looking at them every patch. meanwhile there are tens of champions in the bottom of the trash can that not only are completely ignored balance and gameplay wise, they don't even release skins for them.

Tychusfindlay9181 votes

I agree, it's not a matter of buffing darius anymore, it's a matter of nerfing the most bullshit champions out there. Powercreeping darius is just going to make him cancer to deal with for the rest of the balanced league top roster.

DragonShea1 votes

Accessibility and The damage Meta. That is the real problem.

ValyrianBlade1 votes

It mostly bothers me how Darius isn't even in a bad spot, has recently been in the spotlight, and still gets buffs already.

Meanwhile so many other champions have seen nerfs in weaker spots, not had the spotlight for longer, or been left guttered for substantially longer than Darius was just "not strong. "

It's like if a champion is popular and played a lot (often due to being a new release or rework), riot will give them unnecessary buffs and keep them strong. However if a champion with a cool theme becomes popular because of a meta shift and NOT a rework, Riot assumes something must be wrong and promptly nerfs them to oblivion. Then wonders why the meta goes stale and people leave.

Riot claims they don't enforce a meta, but by now that's BS. Stop buffing meta champions whenever they fall out of favor, and nerfing non-meta champions whenever they come in to favor. Newsflash, a champion can be widely liked and still not played often due to the meta, they're not necessarily OP just because they become popular alongside a 52% win rate. There could be a LOT of players that want to play someone but know it's not a good time to.

Bazooka Blade1 votes

poor rumble RIP

WubbaLubbaDubDab1 votes

mundo and morde dont need buffs but reworks.buffs will just make them op just look at the op aa mundo already has in 1v1 lane imagine him in buffs or if they buff the already op 1v1 and healing of morde.all they need is a rework and a brand nerf,cmon rito the last buffs made him insanely strong he sits at 53 winrate

2DunksFromHell1 votes

They are giving him more damage he doesn't need, they are buffing him in the wrong way...

Bazooka Blade1 votes

daruis is 6th place for best top laners with a 51% win rate why in blue hell would riot buff him? meanwhile rumble sits at 46th place for best top lane and he cant even jungle anymore wtf

DJOKER1 votes

Stop looking at this winrates guys it means nothing. Darius needed this buff and so as most brusiers since we dont have any keystone yet and top lane is in hes worst times, nobody wants to play top now unless ur playing teemo or any other range champ.

top lane is literally the worst lane u can play right now, since ganking top isnt going help the team to win the game and u cant rly effect the game from top. i prefered if all bruisers be stronger now and could make some affect in the game but at least they started buffing darius.

#SO THX RIOT

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