Darius PBE Changes

Darius: -Crippling Strike (W) cooldown lowered from 9/8/7/6/5 to 7/6.5/6/5.5/5

-Apprehend (E) armor pen increased from 5/10/15/20/25% to 10/15/20/25/30%

How do you feel about them?

I think the E one is pretty useful because it doubles your early (and late, but most notably early, technically doubling it till lvl 8) Arm Pen, thus making you more effective against tanks and offtanks, while his W can let him deal better in long trades/1v2.

The problem remains the same: Darius will still be oppressing for melees while being almost useless against ranged and kite champions.

If the direction they want to take is this one, I think I can deal with it. His problem lately was that he couldn't even deal with tanks and melees in general against which he is supposed to have the upper hand.

It's kinda sad he can't be seen in higher elos/proplay because of his kiteable kit tho, so I'm not sure what I would like the most, and I don't really know how to make him deal with ranged as well other than giving him MS/Tenacity/Slow Resist on Noxian Might or something like that.

Anyway, there's still the new Keystone coming in 8.6 probably, so maybe we have to wait a little more before jumping to conclusions.