How to rework Darius into a more teamfighting champ, who gives you a chance to fight or flight.

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Darius the Hand of Noxus

New Passive: Hemmorhage: Darius's attacks and spells(excluding Q) cause his enemies to bleed, dealing magic damage over 7 seconds, stacking up to 7 times. He debuffs his enemies at 7 stacks, nullifying the enemies base health regen, not all of it.

New Q: Ground Slam: Darius slams the bottom part of his axe into the ground, dealing damage and stunning enemies around him in a PBAOE for 0.5-1.5 seconds.

New W Active: Decimating Slash: Darius slashes at an enemy in front of him(single target), dealing physical damage. Depending on if the enemy is turning towards or away from him, gives him different effects. Towards: Darius slashes his opponents arms, slowing their attack speed by X% for 3 seconds. Away: Darius slashes at the enemies legs, slowing their movement speed by X% for 3 seconds.

New E Passive: Thrill of Combat: For every enemy champion on the screen within 1000 range, Darius gains 2/3/4/5/6% reduced damage, capping at 10/15/20/25/30%.

New E Active: Battle Roar: Darius cannot activate this skill unless he has been in combat within the past 2 seconds, when activated his auto attacks and spells deal 20% more damage(excluding his ultimate) and reduce his opponents armor by 15% for 3 seconds, and if Darius activates this skill while there are 3 or more enemies within 1000 range, he gains 50% movespeed for the buff duration and his allies gain half, this debuff cannot be reapplied for 5 more seconds, this buff lasts 3 seconds.

R: Noxian Guillotine: Darius leaps to target, dealing 30/50/70(+2% of enemies max health) in true damage, capping at 210/350/490(+14% enemies max health) in true damage with 7 stacks, growing exponentially.. If he deals the finishing blow the skill refreshes for 20 seconds, gaining a full reset at rank 2 of his ult(level 11). If Darius deals the finishing blow with this skill, all allies surronding him gain a 20% damage increase for the next 3 seconds.

TL:DR If you decide to fight him, he will punish you, but you then have the chance to run away, if you are running away from him, he will slow you then you will have to fight him or get destroyed from behind. His ult buffs his allies along with his E, he can no longer bully the crap out of melees in lane and is still susceptible to kiting immensely, but makes up for it with a great teamfight/presense in game. He will have use if hes behind.

9 Comments

Only Play Darius6 votes

This would make him a tank. He isn't a tank, and frankly I don't want him to be.

Nemesis Force X2 votes

Terrible ideas, Darius only needs a mobility boost and he is good to go.

Weegeechai1 votes

Darius gains reduced damage XD

manliestdino1 votes

Ummm... you're e passive max won't really matter unless it's a map with extra players. And that is hexakill.

doublelift fg1 votes

your E passive idea is good, however the active isn't you're removing his weakness which was the mobility same for you Q

your ulti is however a good idea same for W

change the Q and the E active

MTempty1 votes

Darius currently exists for the same reason nunu top exists. His job isn't to become useful, its to make the enemy laner completely useless. Darius' high cd on pull and lack of mobility as well as lack of defensive steroids makes him unable to "carry" games. What you've done here is mix Rivens W(your Q), Trynd's W(your W), and add damage reduction,/%hp damage and an aoe damage buff to his kit. My question is, why build any damage? Full tank Darius crushes anyone who fights and anyone who runs with his myraid of mechanics for nearly every skill. His teamfight mechanics are interesting but overall, i wouldn't want to see this concept. A frozen mallet+tank Darius would crush a majority of champs with that kit. I'd suggest giving him a more noticible weakness. You seem to believe hes still immobile with a teamwide ms buff, a % slow, and damage reduction(keep in mind kiting doesnt matter for shit if you can't force the enemy you are kiting away). good attempt but try to fulfill a niche and give the champion a weakness. He can't be tanky, able to teamfight, a lane bully, and scale well into late. Unless its old season 2 warmogs 1st Kat. That patch scarred me for life.

Dunkrius2g1 votes

Any changes to Darius and I wouldn't mind testing it out in PBE.

Stevev451 votes

Q is the most fun part of his kit.

stealthfox941 votes

I like most of these changes, except the new Q spinning is part of what makes Darius Darius.

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