Hey I just recently have been playing Darius, and noticed how needed he is. His q where he spins his axe if you get hit by the handle it reduces it by like 75%! I think they should make it more like 25%. Also his E the grab has such long cool down with such short range. I think that you guys need to buff Darius the reason he was needed was because noobs couldn't handle it
TiltoverEnforcer4 votesI literally just finished a Darius game where I got 2 quadras and a triple kill.
Free Form Jazz3 votesDarius' Q was recently nerfed so that the handle damage deals 35% rather than 50% damage. As a regular Darius player, i think this is a fair nerf as it encourages you to aim your Q and also allows counter play if your opponent outplays your Q properly ^^
The E range is 535, almost the range of a standard ranged champion (550), and greater than the range of short rangers (525-500) so i think this is also reasonable. I think Darius is in a balanced state right now
Angryfishstick121 votesYes but also with the q let's say your top and you get ganked if they are fast enough to be in the handle range your doomed because when you hit with the handle you don't get healed
Yaśuo Main2 votesbut you shouldnt be healed if you hit the handle in the first place, it was always like that
EbonyBladeJ881 votesThat's why I've been playing Darius a bit more defensively when I choose him.
I.E, Don't go into lane (Or any fights, for that matter) thinking you're completely unstoppable, because when push comes to shove and you find yourself getting the short stick, you are FAR from unstoppable.
Yes, you have your advantages as a Darius, it's true. But when those advantages fail to win you the edge in a trade or when you're trying to deal with a gank (Because such things HAPPEN, that is a fact that cannot be denied) or some other factor is causing things to go wrong, you just have to hunker down and not be so gung-ho all the time.
Tl;DR, Darius is an overall balanced state, having his strengths and weaknesses, it's just a matter of letting your opponents take advantage of them, or as Darius himself says, "Expose every weakness" of theirs.
GankedByWindows1 votesYes but also with the q let's say your top and you get ganked if they are fast enough to be in the handle range your doomed because when you hit with the handle you don't get healed
So you got outplayed because the enemies were able to get past the blade and died. Where is the problem? Darius has good design with achievable counter play. If you outplay them, you get a pretty decent heal and stacks, and if they outplay you then you get no heal, and are probably dead. Whoever is more skillful should come out on top with his current design.
Dexisions1 votesThat's when you use your E, stuns them for a bit, (you walk re position for your Q to hit with blade).. the E will place a slow to make things easier.. make sure to use ur w if you need them to be an easier target for your Q blade... (Diamond Darius Main :) also using speed utility is needed on darius.. (TAKE GHSOT) fuck tp, whats better than kill pressure on your laner and not allowing him to tp anywhere else but top... he's fucked because your speed allows to stack 5 bloods stacks... BROKEN kappa....
SS Enforcer1 votesI think that the nerfs on his passive damage were mostly uncalled for. I don't really care about the handle, if you're not an idiot, you should be able to hit about 75-80% of your q's. The problem with darius is that the way to counter him is not engaging in longer trades or fights with him, and that is something that most people in lower elos are uncapable of. Also people tend to get hit by the outer circle of the q all the time, and if they do, they take more damage, get a hemorrhage stack, and heal darius at the same time. That's why he's such a monster in silver/gold, and that's why his banrate is significantly higher in those elos too.
I think the solution to this problem is reworking the w into something that is more than just a +1 hemorrhage stack ability, and giving back the +5% movespeed for every bleeding enemy. With these, he wouldn't be able to win every trade so easily just by slapping another stack on you and slowing you with his w, but he would still be able to completely destroy people in teamfights with his bonus mobility. (if you can land your q's on multiple people or you switch targets) This could also give a choice to darius players. (do you want multiple people to bleed and dance through teamfights mashing your q and bleeding them out or do you want to get 5 stacks on someone and then take the enemy out one by one?)
Angryfishstick121 votesWell Darius is supposed to be a skill level of 2 and it sounds like he should at least be a 5 if you have to aim your axe for good dmg