Darius is too chase heavy

Sheiyand Arjhann·12/16/2014, 6:07:43 AM·2 votes·858 views
League of Legends Match History

My friend Zephyr and I were in a game, controlling Morgana Morgana and Rek'sai RekSai , respectively. During the match, Darius Darius very quickly became a threatening and dangerous target because of his insane tanky ability, his ability to stick to targets, and his passive damage output. We discovered soon, when Rek'sai (Zephyr) was being chased by her ditto and Darius at the same time, that Darius can actually stick to targets better than Rek, who is designed specifically around that mechanic. Even though I did get a pentakill that match (which made me almost cream my shorts because I was so excited), it was still an irritating loss. We didn't lose to an enemy team, we lost to Darius, and that made the whole match, even my penta, seem kind of lame and disappointing.

In the link you'll see that he didn't really build resistance or much health, but he was still very difficult to kill unless I was there with a snare and my shield (both of which were needed to keep him off of a target). His grab range is a little high, and the passive damage output makes him really difficult to lane against, even for tanky champions like Garen Garen . I understand the need and the want for Darius and his skill set, but I really don't think he should be able to put out so much damage while also being hard to do damage to, and hard to get away from. My suggestion would be to limit the range of his snag, and to reduce his ability to mark people and just let his passive kill them, if not remove such a mechanic entirely.

It's not that I have a problem with an axeman having bleed damage. It's more that I have an issue with bleed damage being his passive, doing a LOT of damage, and then being able to nuke you with his ult unless you have an especially good escape, usually costing flash in the process. Even if his passive is the only thing doing damage to you, it still does a lot of damage when it's fully stacked, and often times kills his target, even if they manage to escape the fight. The fact that Darius can peg multiple targets with bleed damage at once, and then follow up with an unruly amount of true damage nuke from his ult makes him an extremely dangerous opponent, even when he doesn't build damage.

In summary, while I do like Darius, I do not agree with his ability to stick to a target, even a target designed for mobility, and then execute them with little to no contest. I would like Darius, and his role on the Field of Justice, to be evaluated and his numbers to be balanced out so that he actually has to pick a role and stick to it.

5 Comments

Leaf of the lake12/16/2014, 10:36:28 AM2 votes

He did build super fast boots, super fast sheen item, and super fast attack speed item. With all that, it's really not that surprising for him to be super fast.

PatMcGroyn12/16/2014, 9:20:45 AM1 votes

Darius' sticking power is heavily mitigated by his low base move speed, and lack of any mobility outside of the small extra MS boost from Bleeding enemy champs.

In late game, Darius needs to build some damage items in order to do any damage, outside of his Ult, as all of his abilities scale specifically to BONUS AD. Personally, I feel he is pretty balanced right now, and if anything he's underpowered by default, because he's a bruisers and bruisers are in a terrible spot right now because of mobility + CC creep.

Dreadlocks12/16/2014, 10:26:17 AM1 votes

Looking at your game history u posted.. U guys didn't seem to focus Darius down very much looking at damage received.. That's ur problem considering he didn't even build tanky.. To be honest I don't think u guys had the best comp and ur reksai player didn't seem to stand out very much.. Not to mention Darius got first blood that game ... Without seeing the game he appears in my eyes to of been somewhat ignored

Sasogwa12/16/2014, 12:51:47 PM1 votes

Darius with movespeed items is so easy to kill it's not even funny. Darius is the kind of the champion you can have 18 kills with and still be useless. He has no defensive steroids whatsoever, loses lane to ranged champions and is so easy to kite it's not even fun... I've played Darius and had some good Vaynes in front of me. Those games, I wanted to commit suicide.