The issue with Darius is that his mana costs are so low

that should punish him for spamming a bit harder, but having recently played against darius, i noticed that his q blade radius is very high. its nearly impossible to walk into him to avoid the bleed and extra damage, and even if you try to run away he will still hit you with the very tip even if your champion doesnt look like he his in the warning area.

also his heal is very strong. if he didnt have the heal, he would be probably in a balanced state. if on the pbe they kept the heal to 12% missing hp per strike but not increase the max heal to 36 (instead lowering it to 24), that would help

and for a last note, maybe his movespeed should be reduced by 5-10. 340 is a very high number for a large juggernaut wielding a huge axe, and he has huge synergy with the movespeed bonus from black cleaver.

I agree with this change, it will make player choose between aa and using W to clear the wave slower but sparing mana or use Q, clear a lot faster but use tons of mana!

and this is coming from a Darius long story main :p

sorry for bad English :/

Wow.. eerm I think 50 mana is quite a bit too high. It's nealry the twice amount of mana cost it has now. I would say 40 mana at all ranks. I admit, at now it's mana cost is really low for it's impact it has when it hits. But, his Q has to be cast often, since it is his first dmg-tool. With 50 mana cost you press Q twice and you already gave away an ulti-cost. I don't think that his Q is THAT strong, that it needs a 50 mana cost.

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Agreed. We're going to try out a 30-50 scaling mana cost by Q rank in the next PBE build, see if that puts his mana usage in a more appropriate spot.

Is there a chance to perhaps increase the mana cost a bit hard to get a faster decimate(q) cast? Sorta hard to trade against dash, or movement speed steroids. Or was this an intended design?

What are you thoughts on his self healing, and team fighting ability?

Hi there Meddler, i took some of my time as to see what could be done to balance out Darius some more, and i came up with the idea of increasing the mana cost by X amount and create a new passive for the Q which sounds like this "When Darius hits an enemy champion with the outer blade part of his axe, regain 50% of the mana cost" This will nerf his ability to spam it on minions to push etc but preserve the same mana cost vs champs and in teamfights and reward him some more for hitting with the blade part without him going oom in a teamfight.

Was also thinking of reducing the delay on his Q when Darius is effected by "noxian might" by 0.50 secs so it will have a delay of 0.25 secs instead.

Btw, the new passive on his w makes no sense, pls remove it and and create a new passive for his E. "This ability now resets if Darius kills an enemy champion with his ultimate" This makes so much more sense, it doesnt give him any form for dash or speed buff but allows him to be more sticky in team fights for that penta. The only thing the new passive on his W is good for is to use it om cannon minions lool.

Another idea i had is this. New passive for "noxian guillotine" - "When Darius executes an enemy champion all of his other skills resets by 25% Rank 1 ult, 50% rank 2 ult, 100% rank 3 ult.

These changes do not effect his laning phase or inreases his power in the laning phase expect for the reduced delay on Q while under noxian might.

Hope u can use this for something. Ofc not all of it but hope u can take some of it and use it or that it enlightens you of something new.

Have a nice day.

Lol I got over the delay when I realized the heal, which I consistently hit, is op

your joking right?

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Yea, good luck hitting that 0.75 second delay which everyone complains about.....

Sad thing is people get pulled and instead of walking into him and eating an AA (that he can't even do while the Q is charging) they walk away and get hit for double damage and an extra bleed stack. People are just too used too "OH FUCK IMMA DIE, RUN RUN RUN"

Which deals physical damage, so you can buy all the defense you need for early levels.. Which got nerfed as well, from 12-36 to 10-27 per stack. Only really deals damage when you take 5 stacks, because of Noxian Might. Fail ur Q and u deal 50% damage. No heal. No stack applied. If you do get chunked for that much and you don't trade back, then that is your fault. This is a team game, not 1v1. Ask for jungler help.

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darius is an issue? they just buffed him.

I'm not even sure that was a good idea to begin with..