Darius is in horrible state currently

Dormidon·2/7/2018, 2:59:06 AM·15 votes·1,308 views

Let's face it. He's not viable at P1+ elo.

There should be something more about him than simply "get close and somehow kill them if they fail to kait you". Honestly people are so tanky now and somehow they deal just shitloads of damage. But w/e He needs something to make his role more functional. For example we have great duelist and great splitpusher also she's great at destroying turrets (thx to syngergy with ) and she actually assassinate people with her ult. great 1v1, outplay potential, great splitpusher. Global pressure, reliable late game, amazing godtier splitpusher. Good at killing tanks in lane (not sure about this season)... and that's all I believe. Like literally he does pretty much nothing else. I suggest at least make him... I dunno. A little more dangerous in his sphere of activity or add some new mechanic (utlity/splitpushing type)

28 Comments

ReySolomon2/7/2018, 3:27:14 AM7 votes

Yup, Now darius losses against tanks lawl.

Reasonover2/7/2018, 3:07:21 AM6 votes

I agree with you. I picked him up recently and tried playing him in normals. He feels pretty dominant in lane, but once you get to the grouping stage of the game (which every game has) he feels way to weak. He isn't tanky enough to just go in to try to get his 5 stacks off, and if he does go in, he needs to back up to get the healing from the outer part of his Q. He gets kited way to easily (In my opinion) and can almost never get off 5 stacks in a teamfight unless the enemy team is completely ignoring you. TBH I believe that he should be in line for a rework (after akali and irelia or maybe 1-2 champs after). It is just very frusturating to stomp lane only to get kited and not do much damage during a team fight. [sg-soraka]

gabetheguy2/7/2018, 3:09:22 AM4 votes

I think an E range increase would do him very nicely in this meta.

Hayaishi2/7/2018, 2:18:19 PM3 votes

To be honest when has Darius NOT been in a terrible state against people with some game knowledge? (Not counting that one time he was overpowered)

He, he has no range and low mobility. He will NEVER be good unless suddenly carry heroes start doing 0 damage and CC disappears.

Common Satyr2/7/2018, 7:12:44 AM2 votes

he is also much tankier than the other champions you mentioned which is what he brings to the table that the others do not. Personally I think he is fine. He is just more of a niche pick. Shouldn't blind pick him. But there are tons of champions that are the same.

DragonShea2/7/2018, 10:53:51 AM2 votes

Darius needs to have baseline Tenacity/slow resist in his kit, He needs to be kitable yes but he is too damn kitable right now as it is. Also damage overall needs to be lowered.

leakinb2/7/2018, 3:48:50 PM2 votes

He is already a monster in early game as well as in low elo Better give him more power for high elo (although he is easy champ) May be same treatment like garen (require great timing on W to absorb dmg and cc etc)

Sirsir2/7/2018, 8:38:04 PM2 votes

Good. That champ has been a toxic POS since his rework. Had a high banrate despite his low winrate simply because he's a bad experience to play against.

But thats exactly what juggernauts are supposed to be. Highly kiteable, otherwise OP. Thats literally what they said they wanted when they made the class way back when they gave Skarner a 70% winrate

Azadethe2/7/2018, 3:55:36 AM1 votes

You're cooky. Darius' kit is fine. What is challenging is learning the patience to use it correctly. After he's level 16, Darius's Ult doesn't even need to 5 stack; as long as he last hits someone with Noxian Guillotine, he automatically gets 5 stacked, and can chain a penta without the setup.

What is challenging for Darius is working around teams who have blanket slows which crowd him out, like a team with Gangplank Anivia Ekko Lux . He needs his team for that.

KNÍGHT2/7/2018, 3:45:24 PM1 votes

Have u tried full ad DAR?=P u will be a monster in early game and a bit in the mid game but then ur advantage will go down as fast as it came up =P

Ungrateful Thug2/7/2018, 9:04:56 PM1 votes

What about when he reaches 5 stacks, he gets a small window of bonus tenacity?

Ryusaether2/7/2018, 6:16:42 PM1 votes

He just needs some changes to make him actually reach his target. Like giving his passive movement speed at max stacks (or per stack, but meh) or give him MS and/or slow resist on his W, making you have to choose if you want to auto reset for an extra stack or chase an opponent.

I Greencard l2/8/2018, 3:10:56 AM1 votes

i feel like his Swing speed should scale with rank

PokladnicaZla2/7/2018, 8:52:20 AM1 votes

Umm,looking at statistics,it seems like he's doing fine for the most part. I dont think that we should buff him before nerfing top champions that are currently dominating top.

Tornao2/7/2018, 8:43:01 PM1 votes

Ye he looses against tanks, but he absolutely demolish melee's. He can build 1 dmg item and tanks items, and be immortal and have assassin dmg and can 1vs5, if not focused. Tbh I hate darius after rework, he has bs heals, true damage ult for half of hp, pull and slow, but he is still not that great. That shows how top is in shit state

no to toxic2/7/2018, 12:49:22 PM1 votes

Give Darius a useless minigame like with Jinx and Caitlyn. Make it something like Demacians dunked. Then add the same to Garen with Justice served. There we changed nothing but atleast we got a little distraction.