How to balance Darius by the right way

Lord Asurya··3 votes·955 views

If the hotfix significantly improve the Darius' power (to the point of making him too strong), his kit changes make him balanceable and less frustrant to play / play against.

Actually, Darius have three problems and they are not why people always think (damages) :

  • His sustain is too high, particulary when facing one or multiple tanks
  • His combo of slows is too strong early
  • His health became rapidly too high, even without a lot of items or if he is behind

Now, take a look at the solutions :

  • Nerf his sustain : revert the healing change to his Q (15 => 10%) and add an healing cap
  • Nerf the strengh of his W with one point : slow about 50/60/70/80/90% instead of a flat 90%
  • Reduce slightly his health (something like -100 level 18)

And not the things players who don't learn him / learn play vs him will say : true damages are OP, reset is OP, passive is OP, Q spam is OP, arpen is OP.

If Darius finally need more :

  • reduce slightly his Q base damage (it can kill him, same as nerf his passive ...)
  • touch his mana costs : revert Q cost change or make it increase per point in this skill
  • revert W cost reset change

Why did i think Darius don't need so much of nerfs :

  • Darius is dependent from items, any nerfs / change to them can affect him a lot (and some items, like the Dead Man's Plate will probably be toned done a bit)
  • Darius main strengh is his too high sustain with a lot of health
  • Nerf Darius late or damages will make him to be useless for 3, 4 years again (no, permanent 47, 48% winrate is not ok).

Thank for your attention !

PS : English is not my native language, if you don't understand something, ask me (without any form of intolerance please)

7 Comments

ID x iKuma4 votes

honestly all the nerf he needs is reverting his Q heal buff and thats it

Darius is a true immobile champion so he needs his slows since they took away his little mobility from his passive and the fixed E bug and lets not forget he has a delay on his Q which is longer than veigar's stun and damage is all what he can offer.

ruizroy191 votes

i play a lot of darius...i like him the old way...they actually ruined him for me -____- soo, let's leave him alone, nobody touch him XD

Lord Asurya1 votes

Yeah, the heal is the main problem, but even with buff revert, Darius still need a cap on it imo to nerf 6K HP build (who ... deal more damage than damage build ... with the T Hydra).

Thank for your contribution ^^ !

Jefftiffy1 votes

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honestly all the nerf he needs is reverting his Q heal buff and thats it

Darius is a true immobile champion so he needs his slows since they took away his little mobility from his passive and the fixed E bug and lets not forget he has a delay on his Q which is longer than veigar's stun and damage is all what he can offer.

So take away the only thing he gained from his rework. Let's not forget that he basically got gutted in every regard except his Q heal and passive (which is debatable).

He had mobility taken away. He had damage taken away. He had his damage converted to a single type. His E is not as reliable anymore. His AS went down the drain. The only thing he got was sustain and really back loaded damage on his passive.

ID x iKuma1 votes

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So take away the only thing he gained from his rework. Let's not forget that he basically got gutted in every regard except his Q heal and passive (which is debatable).

He had mobility taken away. He had damage taken away. He had his damage converted to a single type. His E is not as reliable anymore. His AS went down the drain. The only thing he got was sustain and really back loaded damage on his passive.

Look I love Darius but the best for him is to revert his Q healing from 15% to 10% because right now he can pretty much win any matchup and scale so hard to late game. He has the same issue with pre-nerf Ryze were he can all in any champion (he still can) and scale late game but Darius is less toxic than Ryze.

He has pretty good damage without Bloodrage and his old healing was fine. So I hope riot just revert his healing which is his main issue right now.

360D3GR3SS1 votes

I don't understand why they want W mana refunded. Also darius's whole kit is useless against ranged people, if he can't get to his target he usually just gets killed trying to get to them or run from them.

ID x iKuma1 votes

Well that's the point of his scaling late game since they reduced his lane bullying and adding more counter-play on his Q.

So it makes since he can heal so much just by reaching late game but I do agree his early healing is kinda silly.

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