http://www.surrenderat20.net/2017/01/110-pbe-update.html#balance
Handle damage lowered from 50% to 35%
this nerf will make darius losing more against mobile melees that can go into melee against him
might be able to lane against him again
he's pure garbage in early game, even if he dodges the Q he can't win
LegitBacon665 votesIs it okay for Darius to stomp every lane match up and sucessfully 1v3?
Ahristocats6 votes
Big Lincoln4 votesdumb nerf, Darius is balanced
2DunksFromHell3 votesthey just nerfed noxian might damage...WTF ARE THEY THINKING???? CHAMP GETS LITTLE BETTER WIN RATE THEY NERF IT NERF FUCKING VI ZIGGS XERATH MALZA MALPHITE THEY HAVE EVEN HIGHER WINRATES THEN DARIUS FCK THIS GAME IN DONE WITH IT
Stephenizgod1 votesDarius isn't really suppose to dominate all lane match-ups. Also he is more of a noob stomper right? Like better at lower elo's because he is easy but worse in higher elo's because he has a lot of counterplay? Right now Darius is both easy and incredibly strong all game, he is hard to kill, deals a shit ton of damage, and is hard to escape/kite when he has ghost and stormraiders. Besides with those changes it doesn't affect any of those things I mentioned if you are good enough to hit the ax head.
Ahristocats3 votesno one takes stormraider, ghost is situational
darius DOES NOT dominate all lane match ups right now, wake up friend
Stephenizgod1 votesWell I see it a lot, tends to be picked against match-ups that don't threaten him with damage or tankiness but can run away or kite him easily.
Didn't he have a ridiculously high win rate in Diamond+ not too long ago?
Ahristocats1 votesit doesn't matter what he does in diamond+
riot balances around plat 5 and above, and above that his win rate is 51.5% WHICH IS FINE, and while having COLOSSUS which i remind is being nerfed
Stephenizgod1 votesWell I don't see how this nerf will have a huge impact, I believe he is suppose to struggle against champions that can get into handle range right? You will just need to adjust your playstyle to accommodate people who can jump in because your damage will be significantly lower.
Ahristocats1 votesthat's the problem, i already lose hard against riven for instance
and i'm going to lose even harder against her, for no reason at all darius doesn't need anything
Critmaster Garen1 voteshes a bit on the strong side (only very slightly though), but that nerf is also too much, and its entirely wrong.
what they should have looked into is slightly reducing the base damage of his bleed on lower levels, or the ad bonus off his passive on lower levels. it would have removed a slight bit of power from his early laning, without impacting his midgame carry potential.
the reduced damage on his q just nerfs him at every phase of the game for no reason.
Ahristocats3 votes[{quoted}](name=Critmaster Garen,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=rbqi9REG,comment-id=0003,timestamp=2017-01-10T22:36:46.746+0000)
what they should have looked into is slightly reducing the base damage of his bleed on lower levels, or the ad bonus off his passive on lower levels.
i don't know about what you're proposing
i can see the passive damage nerf, but not the bonus ad
darius entire kit numbers were nerfed in exchange of bonus ad at 5 stacks why? so darius kit sucks before he gets 5 stacks, and getting 5 stacks IS SO HARD
nerfing his bonus ad on passive even in earlier ranks would make him more unplayable than Q nerf
Critmaster Garen1 votes[{quoted}](name=Dr Sona x Rubick,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=rbqi9REG,comment-id=00030000,timestamp=2017-01-10T22:49:56.660+0000)
what they should have looked into is slightly reducing the base damage of his bleed on lower levels, or the ad bonus off his passive on lower levels.
i don't know about what you're proposing
i can see the passive damage nerf, but not the bonus ad
darius entire kit number were nerfed in exchange of bonus ad at 5 stacks why? so darius kit sucks before he gets 5 stacks, and getting 5 stacks IS SO HARD
nerfing his bonus ad on passive even in earlier ranks would make him more unplayable than Q nerf
then the bleed would probably be a better choice.
point is, that if they want to give him a slight tap, they dont need to also nerf him at every single stage of the game. hes an early game beast against certain matchups.
taking just a little bit of the bleed damage, and only on early levels would at least not be terrible for him.
Critmaster Garen1 voteswow. i didnt see the full extent of the nerf, and that they hit coc aswell.
yea, that goes way too far.
Dormidon1 votesI cant say if this nerf is reasonable but actually this isnt a big deal. If you miss Q you anyway lose ur trade. Wont change much. -10 dmg early is ouch but scale is still amazing. Going suprer ham 1v1 usualy cause me to feed in lane since i pay less respect to my opponent. More reasons to play carefuly
