Why Darius is easily my most hated champion in league

Off Meta Evan··3 votes·4,605 views

Okay. so keep in mind this is all my opinion and im just going on a LONG over due rant.

Hi, im asome232, a gold 5 Kennen Main i've been playing league for about 3 years now. over the course of this game there have been champs i've had very mixed opinions on. but one champion, one fucking champion that never ceases to earn my scorn is Darius. Now for any of you that play champions like Nasus Yasuo Poppy this is probably a no brainer why you hate this champs guts. Lets, however assume that everyone is a fucking vayne main and can kite perfectly like our lord and savior Doublelift and they have no idea why Darius is such cancer to play against. Well lucky for you i've condensed my reasoning into 5 easy to understand steps

  1. His passive. Just his passive. it makes his level 1 a nightmare, it procs black clever so it it does even more damage as it goes on, BECAUSE it works so well with his passive its the only damage item he's ever gonna need, not to mention since it reduces armor so much and he has built in pen he basically does true damage to you. not to mention the infamous 5 stacks that make him do adc levels of damage. it also means that even if he has no escape, he can just 1v2 cause his passive is contagious.

  2. his ult. from a simple stat stand point he easily has the best execute in the game, its true damage, it scales better with his passive that straight up ad so you don't even need that much damage to do a lot. then rito in all there grace and glory thought it was a good idea to give him a reset..... okay....

  3. his "counterplay". Darius is a champion that you DON'T want to have extended trades with. ranged or melee, tanky or squishy, its generally not a good idea to get close to him. So how do you outplay his Q? by getting close to him.... wut. His primary weakness is supposed to be getting kited but his range is actually really good for a melee champ and his sticking power is insane with a pull and a slow that doubles as an auto reset so kiting him without any kind of peel can actually be hard in certain match ups.

  4. his scaling. There are people who would claim that Darius becomes useless late game. This is false. while he certainly isn't at his best late game darius is plenty useful. he can get picks with his grad, his passive makes him a monster if he can get it off and his Q assures that he'll survive for a long time even if he's not building tanky. True damage never drops off so as long as darius has an R button he will ALWAYS be useful. so unlike other pure cheese champs like Pantheon who really need to snowball in order to be useful, darius doesn't have that issue, he's an early game bully that has the potential to be a late game team fight monster. because why not.

  5. his character. what draws me to a champion in the first place is their design and personality. like Aatrox for instance looks fucking awesome making me want to play him even if he isn't that amazing and Poppy has an extremely likeable personality. making someone like myself, who doesn't particularly enjoy her style of play, be interested in playing her. Darius however, is just a fucking asshole. He looks like a roided up 40 year old man going through a mid life crisis. his weapon i find to be lacking in any kind of uniqueness overall he's not an interesting character in the slightest.

and a bonus reason, he's in my opinion the easiest champion in the game, cause you do damage while being tanky and just needs to go in.

anyway, TLDR, fuck darius, he's an annoying broken mess that i wish was nerfed, gutted and left to drown in a sea of his own blood.

18 Comments

Michael7025 votes

This coming from a Kennen main. Kennen is cancer. He's right up there with Teemo.

Off Meta Evan1 votes

how so? his range is meh, his ratios are only really good on his Q which is a skill shot that hits minions so you can dodge that, and his ult but its only up around every 100- 80 seconds. his scaling 1v1 in the late game isn't that amazing without using ult but its such an important ult if you blow it on just one target you run the risk of losing an up coming team fight. he has counters in Ahri Lux Leblanc Olaf and of courseIrelia so there are plenty of champs you could pick into him. Seems balanced to me.

TheOvermind4 votes

You done crying ?

Ralanr4 votes

I do actually hate the counterplay to his Q and I hate trading due to his passive.

Beyond that, he's not stupid.

HorusEye3 votes

"This is all in my opinion", is a Kennen main & claims everyone in League hates Darius.

Off Meta Evan1 votes

I don't think everyone hates him. i'm simply saying if you play someone that he counters chances are you probably hate going up against him. i never said everyone hates, its just reasonable to assume that if a champion counters your main you're prolly gonna hate playing against them. IE, willing to bet most adc players hate playing against rammus when they play adc.

ItsOrval2 votes

A person who mains Nasus facing a Darius would know to farm under tower and wait till hed have enough armor to farm without worrying. Darius isnt a problem for us Nasus mains, we kill him fast at level 6+ depending on stacks. The only way a Darius is cancer is if you keep feeding him, Darius is pretty useless unless he snowballs, and if he does, thats your fault for losing you lane. 'There are people who would claim that Darius becomes useless late game. This is false. ', thats just your play style against him. Use armor piercing and armor in general if you think darius is that big of a problem.

Off Meta Evan1 votes

See i also used to main nasus and imo that match ups aids. you're not safe under tower cause his grab and Q range are long enough to hit you just out its range. so if you wanna go for caster minons you're likely to get chunked. Even if you do survive laning phase, darius ult is still a big problem if the enemy carries are fed cause while you're busy trying to murder say the Ashe darius is procing passive and ulting you. can't really build against true damage....

borger1 votes

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hsumis1ove1 votes

Doublelift isn't very good at vayne. fyi. I also see your reasoning, but then the only solution i guess is to become a vayne main.

MakeThemBleed1 votes

You hate darius yet you main a champ that counters him ? Lmao...

Off Meta Evan1 votes

why do you think i started playing him :^)

AlwaysByMySide1 votes

It's so surreal to see a Kennen main complaining so loudly about Darius, of all champions. As if your champion isn't one of Darius' single hardest match-ups.

Friendly Ram1 votes

Wow the amount of rage was pretty small for a dar-dar post. Some good points and not sure on all the downvotes.

AlwaysByMySide1 votes

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Okay. so keep in mind this is all my opinion and i'm just going on a LONG over due rant.

Hi, i'm asome232, a gold 5 Kennen Main i've been playing league for about 3 years now. over the course of this game there have been champs i've had very mixed opinions on. but one champion, one fucking champion that never ceases to earn my scorn is Darius. Now for any of you that play champions like Nasus Yasuo Poppy this is probably a no brainer why you hate this champs guts. Lets, however assume that everyone is a fucking vayne main and can kite perfectly like our lord and savior Doublelift and they have no idea why Darius is such cancer to play against. Well lucky for you i've condensed my reasoning into 5 easy to understand steps

Yasuo is fine against Darius. It's a little hard early on, but Yasuo will outscale Darius.

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A Yas with these items plus fervor of battle or warlord's bloodlust will murder Darius, even if Dar is also full build.

  1. His passive. Just his passive. it makes his level 1 a nightmare, it procs black clever so it it does even more damage as it goes on, BECAUSE it works so well with his passive its the only damage item he's ever gonna need, not to mention since it reduces armor so much and he has built in pen he basically does true damage to you. not to mention the infamous 5 stacks that make him do adc levels of damage. it also means that even if he has no escape, he can just 1v2 cause his passive is contagious.

He's pretty good at 1v2ing certain champs, especially with a lead, but frankly if you're having this much trouble as Kennen it's probably you.

  1. his ult. from a simple stat stand point he easily has the best execute in the game, its true damage, it scales better with his passive that straight up ad so you don't even need that much damage to do a lot. then rito in all there grace and glory thought it was a good idea to give him a reset..... okay....

Garen's ult against the Villain is the best execute in the game. It's pretty good though. Perhaps not as good as a five man stun field that can lock down an entire team.

  1. his "counterplay". Darius is a champion that you DON'T want to have extended trades with. ranged or melee, tanky or squishy, its generally not a good idea to get close to him. So how do you outplay his Q? by getting close to him.... wut. His primary weakness is supposed to be getting kited but his range is actually really good for a melee champ and his sticking power is insane with a pull and a slow that doubles as an auto reset so kiting him without any kind of peel can actually be hard in certain match ups.

You get close, trade quickly, then disengage if you're playing a melee champ. Use CC to lock him down when you make your escape. Riven for example is very good at doing this. Kennen can also do it with his stun, while also abusing the range advantage. Keep in mind that until his Q goes off you can get free damage on him. Wukong can E>Q>W before Darius can get more than one auto off.

  1. his scaling. There are people who would claim that Darius becomes useless late game. This is false. while he certainly isn't at his best late game darius is plenty useful. he can get picks with his grad, his passive makes him a monster if he can get it off and his Q assures that he'll survive for a long time even if he's not building tanky. True damage never drops off so as long as darius has an R button he will ALWAYS be useful. so unlike other pure cheese champs like Pantheon who really need to snowball in order to be useful, darius doesn't have that issue, he's an early game bully that has the potential to be a late game team fight monster. because why not.

Pantheon is a bigger lane bully than Darius is, and has much less counterplay in lane. That's why his fall off is much harsher.

  1. his character. what draws me to a champion in the first place is their design and personality. like Aatrox for instance looks fucking awesome making me want to play him even if he isn't that amazing and Poppy has an extremely likeable personality. making someone like myself, who doesn't particularly enjoy her style of play, be interested in playing her. Darius however, is just a fucking asshole. He looks like a roided up 40 year old man going through a mid life crisis. his weapon i find to be lacking in any kind of uniqueness overall he's not an interesting character in the slightest.

As Darius himself would say: Don't hate the player. Hate yourself.

and a bonus reason, he's in my opinion the easiest champion in the game, cause you do damage while being tanky and just needs to go in.

Jesus, what elo do you play in?

A Darius that just walks forward to try and get kills is one of the easiest to counter champions in the game. Just fucking peel him and CC him, have your ADC focus him down with their sustained damage and armour pen (though any DPS champ can do this, Master Yi, Tryndamere, Azir, Cassiopiea, etc.).

Playing Darius successfully requires far more know-how and finesse than some fuck ass hero like Kenne who just five man stun and zhonya's the enemy team. Getting big fat heals with your Q is real outplay potential. He's possibly the highest skill cap Juggernaut. Certainly more than Garen.

anyway, TLDR, fuck darius, he's an annoying broken mess that i wish was nerfed, gutted and left to drown in a sea of his own blood.

Good thing Rito doesn't give a shit what you wish.

Off Meta Evan1 votes

kennen vs darius isn't a hard match up you're very right, i orignally started playing kennen cause i wanted a counter for him. i just really fucking hate fighting him as most melee champs. its not about being able to fight him with kennen. the counter play on his Q can really only work for mobile champs which i don't play a whole lot of so i find it extremely diffcult to do anything against since he has higher base speed or a phage most of the time. and while panth is a bigger lane bully he's only a bigger lane bully 1-5 which is why i think he has better balance, he gets a bunch of early game cheese for a shitty 6 power spike for dueling. as far as skill... dude doesn't have a single skill shot to his name and gets tanky af allowing you to make a shit ton of mistakes.

AlwaysByMySide1 votes

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kennen vs darius isn't a hard match up you're very right, i orignally started playing kennen cause i wanted a counter for him. i just really fucking hate fighting him as most melee champs. its not about being able to fight him with kennen. the counter play on his Q can really only work for mobile champs which i don't play a whole lot of so i find it extremely diffcult to do anything against since he has higher base speed or a phage most of the time. and while panth is a bigger lane bully he's only a bigger lane bully 1-5 which is why i think he has better balance, he gets a bunch of early game cheese for a shitty 6 power spike for dueling. as far as skill... dude doesn't have a single skill shot to his name and gets tanky af allowing you to make a shit ton of mistakes.

What top laners who can't just poke him outside of his threat range aren't mobile enough to go in on him for his Q and disengage?

His Q is a skill shot, as is his E.

Oh, and Darius, despite building full tank, has no tank steroids or mobility, so if he makes a mistake he is deceptively easy to kill.

Off Meta Evan1 votes

well thats not really what i'm talking about. i'm talking about fighting him as a melee champ. however i honestly don't think the gnar/ teemo match ups are as one sided as most people think. his E can negate gnars jump and the W can negate the speed up he gets from passive. not to mention his Q range is somewhere around 400-475 which is around the same auto range as teemo and gnar. The match up is in there favor but my question is why is it not completely one sided when his entire schtick is bullying melee champs and having match ups that are one sided.

as for his "skillshots" i put it under talons W, a move that, yes can be missed but honestly... its so wide, and often times is going to be used at point blank ranged you're rarely gonna miss it. not to mention you're playing a champ that typically wants to get close so doing it at point blank is usually gonna happen.

he has not steroids or mobility but with 3k hp and a built in heal, getting "caught out" can often times result in a double kill or a team fight. my point is that while he's certainly not the tankiest guy in the game. the damage that he out puts is far too high for a champ that does the amount he does, with some of the highest scaling AD, and a passive that can give him up to 200 bonus AD.

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