One more question before i'm quiting asking a buff/rework for Darius.

Deadliest One·2/19/2015, 1:18:04 AM·6 votes·1,014 views

So, I'm not gonna complain, and gonna go straight to it:

Akali Ultimate : Akali generates a charge of Essence of Shadow periodically and upon kills or assists, and can store up to 3 charges. ACTIVE: Akali moves through the shadows to quickly dash to and strike the targeted enemy, dealing magic damage and consuming a charge of Essence of Shadow. Fully resets on kill OR ASSIST and gap closer.

Katarina Passive: Scoring a kill or assist will reduce the cooldown of Katarina's abilities by 15 seconds.

Fully resets on kill OR ASSIST 3 on 4 of her abilities, which contains gap closer, damage reduction and aoe damage.

Nidalee Ultimate ability's passive:

Triggering Prowl Hunt resets Aspect of the Cougar's cooldown if Nidalee is in Human Form

Fully resets 3 of her 7 spells, which contains gap closer, execute and aoe damage.

Irelia Q ability: If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and refunds 35 mana.

Fully resets on kill, refunds mana, gap closer and trigger on-hit effects.

Kalista E ability: If Rend scores a kill, the cooldown is refreshed and refunds 20 mana for each target killed, up to 40 mana.

Fully resets on kill, refunds mana, slows and stacks up INFINITELY.

Khazix E ability: Increases Leap's range by 300 (900 total range), and causes kills and assists scored by Kha'Zix to refresh Leap's cooldown.

Fully resets on kill or assist, gap closer and aoe damage.

MasterYi Ultimate abilty's passive: Champion kills and assists reduce the current cooldown of Master Yi's basic abilities by 70%.

Almost fully resets 3 of his 4 spells, which contains gap closer, heal, true damage on-hit and/or bonus attack damage.

Tristana W ability's passive: Rocket Jump's cooldown resets whenever Tristana gains a kill or assist.

Fully resets on kill OR ASSIST, gap closer and aoe damage.

Zilean W ability: Zilean reduces the cooldowns of all of his other abilities by 10 seconds.

Resets 1 of his 4 abilities automatically, and reduces the rest of his other abilities, which contains bonus mvt speed/slow and a revive ability.

Here's my question:

Why can't Darius have a full reset on his **ultimate ** ability, since:

-80% of his power have been put in his ultimate;

  • Its reset isn't guaranteed, he have to get the killing blow.
  • Riot don't wants to nerf the champions resets that I mentioned up there, because it would affect their IDENTITY, but Darius complete kit as been designed around his ultimate.
  • He have to apply stacks of his passive to deal damage with his ultimate. (just think about Cho'gath's ultimate ability that scales with ability power and that requires no ramp up);
  • His ultimate cost 100 mana everytime it is casted. No refunds;
  • The nerf Riot made to him back in season 3 didn't correct his early snowball problem everyone was complaining about, but his late game power, which is pretty shitty atm to be honest ( He still can snowball lanes);
  • He can't use his ultimate mid game without it being a total waste (since he falls useless without it).

Since this champion:

-Have no mobility; -Have no tank bonus stats (which means you can go full tank, do 0 damage and still get killed in 3 seconds); -Get kited too easily; -Is useless without his ultimate ability; -Can't split push at all; -Is pretty fragile to any kind of crowd control;

  • And mutiple other reasons I could wright down but that would take 200 pages.......

I think giving the full reset back to Darius isn't a major threat, since he will still be trash for the main reason I mentioned up there.

P.S: English isn't my native language, mistakes might have sneak up in my thread.

11 Comments

WhereTheNamesAt2/19/2015, 2:48:45 AM3 votes

Out of all the champs you listed how many have a resetting true damage ult that also scales with AD? NONE. I rest my case

Kitten of Evil2/19/2015, 5:39:09 AM1 votes

I think Darius is mostly suffering from the migration of mages/ranged to top. He destroys most other melees but also loses to almost every ranged champ (except really short-ranged ones he can pull in, maybe)

MarkedOfKane2/20/2015, 3:48:09 AM1 votes

This is how I see it.

The point of his ult is to execute. Just about every Darius is going to deal the killing blow with their ult.

If it didn't run out of time after executing, his ultimate would always be up.