Some thoughts on my favorite Darius champion
There are few things that really pissing me off about Darius game design.
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His weaknesses being way too obvious and easy to abuse by enemies. Yes I know you're gonna say this is part of his nature but... but! When he tries to get close to enemy team they kite and poke. This is okay. I mean they're supposed to do that. But is this freaking fair to do it so easy? Just look at the tierlist and we won't find any "easy counterplay" champ here. Let me count current fotm toplaners:
. If you want try to explain to me how exactly their toolkits are easy to deny so hard as Darius's one? This moment isn't the worst thing I hate about Darius rework but w/e just had to say it. -
When you reach the moment of true strength there is still easy to avoid and abuse his mobility and low range issue. Kinda similiar to the first point. Just asking what is the point to suffer so hard to get this thing when you gonna suffer the same way (if not more) after you hit it?
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When you can't hit ur passive you can't do anything useful for your team. This is the biggest concept disaster of his rework. Yeah he has no inner durability to be legit frontliner. He has no reliable CC ability to help team or engage to them. For example

may splitpush really good when they're not able to perform their main mechanics (Simply beating people to the death with true dmg/insane aa dmg)
has even more options when he can't perform his main ro... Who am I kidding? He's always allowed to poke people with E + Q combo without taking any risk. He may also splitpush turrets. -
When you actually become super Darius with Noxian Might this.... this is actually not that rewarding as we might think! As I said earlier. He just literally does nothing! Waiting his team to engage and set some opportunity to him. I feel like an adc but even worse because my moment of carry isn't stable at all. Say what you want but in 95% scenario you're gonna have like 20-30% HP if you hit passive in teamfight. Not to mention they still can easily avoid you. But I'm even more concerned about his unreliable combat mode. They actually kill you very quickly even before you can charge this dumb Q properly. Ding-ding! No inner durability issue!
P.S I can already see people saying (downvoting too) how bad am I and that I need to hit Q properly to stay alive! Seriously Im an expirienced Darius player myself I know how to hit freaking Q but this isnt enough. It's okay for me to smash some Q but listen. When enemy adc (
for example) and his support simply kill you in 2-3 seconds when you already have passive and when you actually have opportunity to dunk them... You know Darius has like 3-5 seconds cd on his Q not to mention these amazing items on enemy team 
: D Yeah getting killed in 2-3 seconds is kinda classic even for 4k hp 270 armor 200 resists guy. Im actually okay with kiting but I feel angry when you're not getting any reward for achieving some conditions.
P.S.S Seriousy be honest with me. What Darius can do that other toplane champion cannot perform in terms of strategy? For me he has nothing compared to meta lcs toplaners.
is plenty strong, I don't think he deserved his most recent nerfs, but not to get off topic. He is plenty strong but the other "meta" top laners are BROKEN, so why pick "strong" when you could pick "TOO STRONG"
