Darius = Free Lane (plz help)

WildHawk41·9/10/2017, 9:08:35 PM·1 votes·811 views

Someone please help me understand how or what champion I can pick that can even stand in lane with Darius. How am I suppose to even survive a lane with a Dorans blade, Fevor, Ignite

Darius? The odds are so stacked in his favor he doesnt even have to play well. Then come "oh kite him later on" but that doesn't help in lane when he has pull and two >60% slows. Looking at Yorick, a healthy juggernaut kit, he has clear periods Qwhere he has lots damage and periods where he has nearly none. Darius has no counterplay from that perspective. When I look through my champ pool and normal top lane champs there is no one that will ever be able to fight him at any stage of the game. I am getting tired of getting flamed because the deck is stacked in his favor from the get-go. He has no pressure to avoid mistakes.

Someone please help me understand what I am suppose to do? Dodge his q is the only tactic I can find but it doesn't matter because it's up again in 3-5 seconds. Just think his lane bully mentality is a little too easy to execute.

9 Comments

DynastyFear9/10/2017, 9:14:42 PM1 votes

Sadly, lane bully champions exist and we can't do much about it. If you are playing a melee champion, you need to respect his kill potential at all times. Against Darius I tend to play passive and control the minion wave so its always near my tower. Darius is weak against ganks before level 6 so that's your main time to ask for ganks.

Who do you play top? It would be easier to help if we knew the matchups you're having trouble with.

FlyingRoboticCow9/10/2017, 9:28:28 PM1 votes

Jayce He out ranges him his e in hammer form knocks him back after the pull he can easily farm and harass from a safe distance and if he's dumb enough to take ignite instead of tp when he backs use your w to take first tower.

L Psy Kongroo9/10/2017, 9:37:26 PM1 votes

I just play DrMundo into him and farm with Q. Eventually I get so tanky that he can never kill me. The trick against Darius is to not lose to him early game. If you can do that, not give him any free kills, you'll be more useful than him later on.

Darkdemon6539/10/2017, 9:39:43 PM1 votes

You have to pick a ranged champion.

Winters Dawn9/11/2017, 2:04:23 AM1 votes

I like taking gnar against him. Just poke him but don't let him close to you. I always save gnars hop just in case I get ganked or he manages to grab me. Ive been able to bully many darius as gnar out of cs.

TimX24968B9/11/2017, 2:20:43 AM1 votes

play Renekton, start W, disengage whenever he tries to engage with it, and stack your fury. once you hit lvl 3, only try to fight him if your fury is above 50%, then constantly trade in short bursts. e-q-w-e or e-w-q-e combos (or w-q-e-e if you catch him out in melee range).

or just play any ranged champ into him and kite him.

BubblyRainbows9/11/2017, 2:21:56 AM1 votes

I don't have a lot of experience with this matchup, but the last time I did face a Darius top I went 8/2 with Singed. All I did was let him push me almost under tower, run around poisoning the minions, and every time he closed to trade, I tossed him under my tower. He eventually got so tilted that he literally chased me in circles around my tower, taking tower agro the whole time while being poisoned to death and then ragequit.