I don't even know Darius anymore

Jefftiffy·8/26/2015, 10:51:36 PM·1 votes·256 views

I cannot get to the amount of damage I used to get with him before while building bruiser and building tank doesn't do anything because you scale too much with damage. A built in armor pen doesn't help. The problem is you made a person who is meant to be aggressive have an entire kit that contradicts itself.

First we have the passive which needs 5 stacks to reach old Darius damage output and is easier to itemize against and does less bleed damage until extreme late game. But then you lowered his AS and remove a Q stack if anyone is in your face. Meaning pulling someone now removes a stack and reduces damage even more. On top of this you removed the damage amp and CDR on W on bleeding people. So he lost about 50% of his damage on W. And he no longer has a MS buff to keep him close to the people he hits and after he kills a single person he is left now useless unless he never used his pull. Meaning it is near impossible to get a second ult off on someone who isn't hugging your face. And even if you have it up you better hope they don't have an escape because the pull doesn't prevent them anymore. On top of this its harder to kill people with your ult because it does less damage for most of the game and the stacks are much slower to build up.

Did I also mention your Q not only cancels your current AA completely but it prevents from AA for the duration. Basically you are silenced for .75s while you hope your enemy doesn't just dive you (when normally you know its supposed to be the other way around).

His new kit is just mess. You managed to somehow tweak his kit without changing it that much and putting him from not viable in pro play to trash tier. He brings nothing to the table over Riven and she lost yet another one of her counters.

Quite honestly I would like the rework reverted. I loved Darius before the rework, but now I can't even play him for fun. This isn't even including how unviable he is now. I mean I want him to be viable, but I mean they took a bruiser that was damage focused and tryed to make him into a tank? Just wtf is that Riot. Darius has always been meant to be a damage machine not a "Juggernaut". Juggernaut is a role meant for what we called "Raid Bosses", they run in and take awhile to die and usually are highly disruptive and put out some decent damage. The thing is. Darius can't run in and Darius had his damage gutted. So now he feels like the old tank Garen where you run around hoping to do something to seem useful eventually.

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