Assuming both are balanced, why pick garen over Darius?

Buttigieg 2020··1 votes·822 views

I honestly feel that if both are balanced, there will be no reason to use garen over Darius.

What Darius has over garen. A: more damage in his kit. with his passive and true damage ult, Darius naturally does more damage then garen.

B: initiation power. Weak as it is, Darius has initiation power with his e.

C: crowd control. Darius has a pull and 2 90% slows, garen has on silence.

D: a better ult. Darius ult is literally a resetting true damage garen ult.

E: Stronger teamfighting. No explanation needed.

F: harder to kite. With his pull and many slows, it is harder to kite a Darius.

G: peeling power. Pull/slows.

What garen has over Darius.

A: Naturally tankier. To be honest I think Darius is harder to kill in a fight, but garens w gives him natural tankiness.

B: mobility. A small speedbuff, ehh

C: better lane sustain. Unless Darius hits a bunch of q's

D: a silence

Can somebody please tell me why I should pick garen over Darius once they are nerfed to balanced states?

5 Comments

redniwediS3 votes

It's the same reason you would pick Garen over Darius before the juggernaut patch; personal preference.

They are both strong, but are also slightly different. Those slight differences lead some people to prefer one over the other. Personally I'll play Garen over Darius any day, even if Darius is stronger at the time.

ilt2 votes

at least one of them is guaranteed to be banned... so you pick the other one assuming the enemy doesn't take him first

Maximum Zilean1 votes

Because DEMACIA!!!

No other reason needed.

LoLKiru1 votes

Personally, I find Garen harder to kite; if only because his slow cleansing Q is on a pretty low cooldown once he has black cleaver, Darius is probably harder to escape from once he actually reaches you, but the purpose of kiting is to prevent them from reaching you to begin with.

Garen is also probably still going to be much better at killing a single person quickly (especially if they're the villain) if only because Darius has to ramp up for a few seconds before he can start rolling (unless he gets a lucky low health execute on some poor person)

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