Small Darius Change

Darius is easily my favorite champion, but more importantly my favorite core item to build on him is The Black Cleaver. It's an axe just like the one the champion uses and, as people constantly said after he was reworked, it's like the item was made for him. Just one auto attack procs 5 stacks of the Cleaver's passive (It WOULD proc the entire thing, but we'll get to why it doesn't later). The problem I have, though, is that the item just doesn't seem very efficient anymore next to Trinity Force for him to build since Trinity offers so much more in terms of raw stats. Ol' Darius just doesn't have time for The Black Cleaver anymore.

Now, I don't know if this change on its own will make Cleaver a desirable item on Darius again (I doubt it), but I like to think it's a step in the right direction. Remember when I said that one auto attack from the Cleaver adds 5/6 Cleaver stacks? That's because Darius's passive ticks every 1.25 seconds for 5 seconds meaning you get exactly 4 Cleaver stacks during that time (In addition to the one from the auto attack used to apply Hemorrhage in the first place). Simply put, I want the tick timer shortened to an even 1 second to at least guarantee that one attack will eventually proc the entire Cleaver passive. Granted this would need to be balanced out with a damage reduction to his passive (a 20% decrease if my math is right), but I'd be fine with it so long as it helps make Cleaver Darius's core item in most situations again.