"you have to play darius perfectly, like, PERFECTLY. Like, just play renekton instead" - Dyrus

Tychusfindlay918··9 votes·1,170 views

And before ornn's release, darius had a win rate fluctuating within 48-49% in high elo, and slightly sub 50% even in lower elos like gold (despite the belief by many that darius is some brainless pub stomper).

So when are we going to realize that if nothing else, some of the nerfs on darius were overboard?

At the very least, can the noxian might nerf be reverted? It's bad enough that darius has had so many ninja nerfs over the course of his post juggernaut existence, the latest being the bug fix on spreading noxian might through decimating a 4 stack target which happened pretty recently DESPITE darius having had a sub 50% win rate at the time (oh yeah, and he also has zero competitive presence so he certainly isn't a case of "broken in competitive and useless in solo queue").

Darius is objectively BAD past platinum, and he's not stomping low elos either, so in the spirit of many of the changes occuring recently, what's stopping riot from, if nothing else, reverting some of his past nerfs, or hell even just the noxian might nerf alone as stated before?

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TheDesoIation1 votes

They would have to rework him unless his number are way out of hand he will stay the way he is in higher elo.His kit is designed to win lane and that's about it but i'm sure(because 90% of the player base are gold and below) if they buffed him there would be an outrage even tho i think the game should be balanced around the best players not the worst ones it wouldn't be the right thing to do.And from playing on smurf accounts while i was banned for 2 weeks i can assure you darius is stomping low elo(not even only when i play him)

Tychusfindlay9181 votes

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They would have to rework him unless his number are way out of hand he will stay the way he is in higher elo.His kit is designed to win lane and that's about it but i'm sure(because 90% of the player base are gold and below) if they buffed him there would be an outrage even tho i think the game should be balanced around the best players not the worst ones it wouldn't be the right thing to do.And from playing on smurf accounts while i was banned for 2 weeks i can assure you darius is stomping low elo(not even only when i play him)

I'm also playing on a smurf, and I don't ever even see darius picked, let alone dominating every match.

And the statistics don't lie, he's struggling below platinum.

https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/darius/bronze

In fact, his win rate right now is the worst at bronze+ (granted ornn is screwing up his win rate right now with how ridiculously weak he is).

TheDesoIation1 votes

Also the statistics don't mean everything would you say yorick is a broken champ because he has high winrate,maybe but probably not.Also here's a screenshot from my friend who mained darius to d5 57% win rate maybe not the best but it still worked http://prntscr.com/gfnf6r

jwebb01131 votes

hmm i wonder why a slow champ who gets cc and kited to death bad past plat elo

maybe the same reason most juggernauts are bad in high elo

and not seen in pro play

ChargeItDownMid1 votes

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Mens Hair Club1 votes

his winrate jumped this patch because of ornn, afaik it was at 48 ish until he got an 80% winrate against pre hot fix ornn

not to say you're wrong otherwise, Darius is fine on his own merits and isn't the only one suffering from the silly power creep

ChargeItDownMid1 votes

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Mens Hair Club1 votes

it's not like riot is in a hurry to help the dumpstered champions anyway

gonna be 2 more years before voli gets anything i bet

Best princess EU1 votes

darius is garbage even in plat lol

this champ is such a joke i don't even understand how he gets 50% win rate

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