Ahri V Darius Top

TheAverage1·Aug 3, 2017·1 votes·520 views

Tips and tricks if I was playing Darius. I can't figure out how to counter this lady. This lady just throws stuff at me and when I'm behind minions now I gotta watch for the big big. Not behind minions I gotta play the mind game of waiting for big ball to go bye-bye and then wait for smaller white ghosts around her, or the pinky charmy. Then when I try to fight when she engages (I either run or fight obviously) I'll miss my Q's and she'll dash away and just style on me so I gotta get the tips and tricks while I can.

7 Comments

Makior72Aug 3, 20172 votes

Rush magic resist items, initiate with your E if she is close enough. You will win trades early if you can get more than 2 autos off on her. If she is staying out of E range, farm under tower and go for the E if possible when she pokes you under tower to get that tower agro on her. If you still can't get her with your E, just play far back. If you miss farm then you miss farm, but it's not worth getting 1/4 or more chunked for 1-3 cs.

If she leaves lane, push the lane hard to her tower to make her lose as much gold/exp as possible. After wave is pushed try to roam mid for a kill / assist and go B

TheAverage1Aug 3, 20171 votes

Pretty much with the farm under tower and trade only if she gets too close idea is what I thought after the game. Not use to mage/mobile champs going top lane and just getting the shit kicked out of me. Good tips though for sure.

GeNeSismanAug 3, 20172 votes

Unfortunately the greatest weakness of juggernauts like Darius is kiting and Ahri is pretty good at keeping her distance.

Your job at this point is to keep your cs up and take as little damage as you can manage because unless you can 100-0 her before she dashes away you aren't going to kill her without help. Later on it should be difficult for her to kill you because of your resilience and even then i would probably prioritize less mobile targets unless you know her ult is down.

There is no real counter solution in this sort of match up but taking dorans shield should make her poke more bearable in the early game and if you feel like you're still taking too much damage you can rush some early MR into specters cowl to further reduce her poke and overall damage to you.

TheAverage1Aug 3, 20171 votes

I gotta put that mentality sometimes to literally just accept that sometimes to win lane you can't even like have your opponent touch you. Not exactly true like if you can get a trade there ya go but in this situation, this Ahri knew what to do, unlike me where I can't tell jack shit what's gonna be the next move ya know? Very helpful tips tho, thanks.