Slight Darius buff required

Other melees that trash darius when played well would be riven and renekton. Smart nas players manipulate the wave for free farm and proceed to heavily outscale darius. Tryn with ignitenis tossup with rng. Good Yi and udyr top laners can even beat darius. Yo especially just presses q when dar Q's and insta wins most trades even pre 6. Panth pokes far down, good gangplanks dance circles around darius. Heck, I've even been steamrolled by she's before, who picked AFTER me. The point is, skilled melees of almost every class can beat darius because he has lots of counterplay inherent in his kit. I just want darius to at least Excel at what he's meant for: extended fights. Unfortunately, it's hard in this Uber high damage meta to last long enough in a fight to do your job as darius. Assassins are the cream of the crop, live or die, they do their job almost no matter what. Aka, get in, instagib any squishy and maybe even a tank, then get out or die, but at least the accomplish something. Dar either does excels or does nothing, and that's about it most times

I agree...just needs something. I think something more uniquely darius would be to allow him to apply a small amount of damage reduction on enemy champ per stack until 5 stacks when the effect would double or triple. I.e., each stack on 1-4 would apply 1% damage reduction debuff by "crippling" or exhausting them through attrition of blood loss. At 5 stacks it jumps to 10 or 15%. It would give him better duel and team fight utility, but require him to get stacks, thus not removing his core weaknesses, aka kiting or in-and-out burst, shielding against ult, cc, etc. Perhaps he would have to have the more recent buffs nerfed, I don't know. But something balanced that is a net buff to bring him up to 50%ish winrate. After all I feel his identity should be THE LONG FIGHT CHAMP. Sadly, not only is it almost impossible to even reach certain enemies, but sometimes he gets to 5 stacks and still gets canned. Imo, he deserves to win the fight at the point and the enemy should either die or escape until stacks are down. A buff like this would really add a unique, non damage oriented strength for darius.

Yes sure , by nerfing his Damage Otherwise, an Insta win any melee lane should never get buffed