Darius is not reasonable.

WardN·7/3/2017, 5:02:13 AM·23 votes·1,257 views

Before you qq and downvote and cry and while about elo and stuff, hear me out. I'm not saying Darius is broken or overpowered. I'm saying he's unreasonable.

What's the typical refrain from people telling you how to deal with Darius? "Kite him". What are most top laners? Melee. What does Darius counter? Melee champions (for the most part - a select couple can handle him with very careful play).

So if you're playing one of these champions, what do you do? Bitch at your jungler to gank for you, sit under your tower, and pray to get scraps of CS. That's not reasonabe for Melee tops to do. I've already lost lane simply by nature of being melee? What??? I'm not able to try to trade with him, because he'll just yank me back in if I go for the short trades he's not very good with. That's not at all reasonable! He straight up hard counters Melee top matchups, which is the majority of top laners! It's not reasonable to have to counterpick before you even know who you're playing in solo queue.

36 Comments

Big Lincoln7/3/2017, 6:26:05 AM8 votes

What does Darius counter?

tanks, other juggernauts and Yasuo and Camille

if darius countered all melee champions automatically then he'd be pick/ban in high elo. but he doesn't, so he's not. Darius is brutal against players who don't know how to fight him.

Makior727/3/2017, 5:32:48 AM6 votes

Honestly think Darius would be a lot more reasonable if you just took away the slow on his w (and I think he has a slow on his e as well? Not sure.) He is supposed to be a melee hard counter, but the slow makes it almost impossible to end a trade with him if you don't have flash or a dash of some kind in your kit.

d4rkshock7/3/2017, 6:37:38 AM4 votes

Yorick is a hard counter to Darius. He's not even hard and good for low elo.damn good for it. I don't know why I don't see yorick alot in bronze.

FioraWillCarry7/3/2017, 7:52:36 AM3 votes

I recently started playing Darius. Was looking for an easy S to get a box from HexTech. Figured, hey this champ is broken, should get an easy S in norms right ? Wrong. I fed my ass off. Tried a couple games. I just couldn't really do anything. Darius gets kited to death. It's really hard to do anything with him. Not saying he is weak, just that he is not as brainless as I thought. I have quite a bit more respect now for Darius players.

Spoofghoul7/3/2017, 4:52:02 PM3 votes

Same argument could be made vs the whole ADC class

it's unreasonable that every other champions loses late game by default because they are not an ADC

WitchQueen Annie7/3/2017, 9:03:55 AM2 votes

You pick Renekton and you proceed to DESTROY him.

luke bjelica7/3/2017, 4:31:21 PM2 votes

Dong Huap - How to counter darius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyild1ukXfc

PhantomGG7/3/2017, 6:43:14 AM2 votes

I completely agree with this, if you look in my match history you will see i played a game of yasuo and did very good. However lane phase? this was not the case. My dumb as fuck jungler did a gank level 3 and died giving him red buff. What was I the yasuo to do? Sit under tower and pray to rito based gods to allow me to cs. the experience was missery.

2DunksFromHell7/4/2017, 12:35:23 AM1 votes

The salt is strong in this one,my only advice I can give you is when you lane vs Darius,when he Qs go IN THE CIRCLE NOT OUTSIDE fcks me up all the time

Cornerstone17/5/2017, 2:38:42 PM1 votes

Darius, along with Yasuo, are almost always permabanned in lower elo. He needs reworked, just like Yasuo.

ShishouMatt7/3/2017, 6:18:46 AM1 votes

His lore supports this.

DunkinNoobs7/3/2017, 6:34:09 AM1 votes

Darius really struggles against champs that can reliably get into his face and outduel him at melee range. This includes basically all bruisers and melee carries top lane and even some of the better dueling tanks like Poppy and Shen. Bruisers with strong early games like Aatrox or Trundle can beat Darius quite easily if you just go in and don't let Darius intimidate you.

Sun Wu Ryuumoku7/3/2017, 12:50:23 PM1 votes

MonkeyKing Improve your skills! Then find me later

U lose as Camille, u have all needed to beat Darius.

Colgate Gator7/3/2017, 2:59:59 PM1 votes

I haven't had issues with Darius for a while...How much time exactly has it been since the new banning system was implemented?

Catastrophic7/3/2017, 4:29:29 PM1 votes

I think Darius needs more counterplay to his E, and poof, now champs that don't have dashes can actually lane against him.

Eedat7/3/2017, 4:44:02 PM1 votes

I main a champ that gets completely shit on by Darius and even I don't have any problems with him lol

Joxcab7/3/2017, 6:44:18 PM1 votes

He's perfectly fine and healthy. Stop whining.