If he ever gets there. Darius goes Ghost/Flash for a reason.
Darius also has perma slow on a 3 sec cd that resets his AA and allows him to apply 2 stacks of his passive almost instantly, also goes phage for bonus movement speed for hitting you. He goes ghost because he's so cheesy and overpowered he can afford to click ghost and right click you to death missing every spell but winning due to broken passive that gives him AD, deals 10 times more damage than ignite, is impossible to itemize against. And that's just one of his multiple passives.
And if aren't against the likes of Ornn, GP, Kayle, all the ranged top laners, a Jax that's not on Paper Mache 27 elo, etc.
Darius stomps all of the listed champions with ZERO effort, as long as he has fingers and knows how to hit his Q properly. Ornn is slow, deals no damage, can't escape a Darius, Kayle gets caught by an E and dies instantly, NOTHING a Kayle can do if she gets caught by a single E. Jax? There is no point in the game when Jax can beat Darius. Darius doesn't need Spear to Shojin to have his cooldowns in URF mode (3 sec cd on Q late game HYPERLUL) not to mention all the busted passives Darius has ...
If you're choosing to fight him when he's at an advantage, say, after ulting 2 members of your team, then yeah. But then again, why are you fighting him when he's at an advantage?
As I said Darius is at an advantage from Lv1 till lv18, he powerspikes every single level and wins every all in and 1v1 vs any champion with ease. Wave management, trading, or general game knowledge are all irrelevant to Darius player since he can brute force and win every match up with an overloaded champion that's been overpowered since Season 5
Top is in a miserable state because of all the ADCs going there and Klepto.
People are forced to play ranged champs because Darius is so cancerous to deal with you can at least try to outrange him and survive the lane phase rather than having him instawin every melee match up and zone you from farm 24/7 and then tower dive you and 1v5 your entire team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8VgO_AGC3M
He only got buffs from this clip btw
Good luck doing that to a Quinn or a Kennen without Ghost/Flash. hell, WITH Ghost/Flash they'll still kite the fuck out of you. Darius is anything but blind pickable right now.
1 pull on either of those and they are 100% dead with nothing they can do, Quinn and Kennen take infinitely more skill to pull off successfully than Darius.
The only counterplay is to not fight Darius and outscale him by default the attosecond the game timer reaches 25 minutes.
The only champion that outscales Darius' 3 sec Q cd and 5 sec pull CD and 300 bonus AD passive late game is Veigar with 5000 AP, that would take about 2-3 hours to achieve in a single match.
Silence is CC. Hard CC too.
Also, regen and shields count as sustain. Garen happens to have both. But a lot more of the former. Garen's passive IS still sustain.
Silence is not CC, it's especially not hard CC. Shields do not count as sustain and neither does his pathetic passive that any good player can deny or force him to miss CS to proc it.
