So is Darius Losing His Atk Spd Slow on W?

Overall, despite number nerfs across the board for Darius, including a huge reduction on the AD ratio for his W, his changes look good if one assumes that he fully stacks hemorrhage.

However, it looks like he's also about to lose the attack speed slow on his W in addition to losing the cooldown reduction based on target's hemorrhage stacks, and slow duration (which led to possible permaslow at 40% cd), in return for a measly reduction of base cd and increase of the movement speed slow.

This means he is flat-out worse than before if he doesn't fully stack hemorrhage and has no significant advantage with which to beat champions like (powerful autoattackers), who can essentially duke it out with Darius and score a kill by sticking to him(who has no mobility) and right-clicking him.

One of Darius' unique aspects imo is that he DOES have a way to deal with the autoattackers other than outright avoiding them by running before the fight starts. His attack speed slow really gave the feeling of crippling his opponent and giving yourself an advantage to press while it lasts.

The attack speed slow is an important part of Darius' kit, which is obviously all about pulling in enemies and crushing them in an up-front fight without escape as an option. He'll lose to the aforementioned autoattackers much more often without it.

TL;DR Darius shouldn't lose his attack speed slow on W.

: Neverrr retreat.