Darius isnt the easiest champion, but he can get you out of bronze and silver

lynchboy15·Jul 14, 2016·1 votes·935 views

I think Darius is a really fun and enjoyable character to play, as long as you aren't toxic and proclaim yourself as god. He is fun to play, and quite easy. If you are looking to have some fun in top lane, go ahead and try Darius. Just don't brag about being good with Darius, he is a lower elo champion and can be played well by almost anybody. If you have trouble playing Darius, then either practice or don't play him at all (hint: use your q aggressively). Just please don't brag about being good with Darius, you will probably get insulted many times by the other team, and possibly even your own team.

14 Comments

MakeThemBleedJul 14, 20163 votes

You can brag about being good with darius, so as long as you excel at playing him in the higher Elos.

HaXourceJul 14, 20162 votes

Nasus is good at carrying games too

Best Darius KRJul 14, 20162 votes

What can't get you out of Bronze and Silver? lol

Tychusfindlay919Jul 19, 20162 votes

I'm a platinum 4 Darius main and contrary to your post here, Darius, especially after the rework, has become quite a bit more complex to play with his Q delay and weaker base ability damages in exchange for the noxian might bonus damage.

A good Darius (plat+) and a bad Darius (bronze-gold) are miles apart from each other if you actually look at how they play. Micromanaging his pull optimally is a huge one that low elo Darius's fail to achieve. Realizing that his E has an animation and isn't instant is another one that trips up many newbie dariuses. Realizing and capitalizing on the fact that Darius's pull bounces enemies off of him instead of just stun them is another one that newbie dariuses have trouble with (the pull bounces them off of you to your outer Q range).

Finally, the absolute biggest challenge for many newbie dariuses is Darius's biggest micro component, positioning.

Old Darius was a bit more brain dead with the instant Q as he basically just ran in, nuked one enemy, and died. New Darius, although still relatively simple, has a bit more to him in terms of mechanics now that you have to play around Q delays and trying to get to noxian might (which is his only real way to kill people outside of building full AD and being squishy).

SnowLeopard91Jul 19, 20161 votes

Immediately after the rework, he was solidly broken. Now, he's just strong.

Immortal FenixJul 14, 20161 votes

Didn't vote, there was no 'Only when I feel like not trying in lane' option. item 3070

Immortal FenixJul 14, 20161 votes

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Didn't vote, there was no 'Only when I feel like not trying in lane' option.

People not being able to take a joke, downvoting jokes... Q_Q

TheOvermindJul 14, 20161 votes

People that say darius is an easy champ are those scrubs who have no idea what they r doing and just go and try and q their enemy whenever it's up, or whenever an enemy gets on top of them. Like "hurr durr I'm being threatened Ima use ma heal move" they always mindlessly rush black cleaver into every mathcup even if they are behind, because "black cleaver is darius' item". Not to mention their pull combo is something like : e,w and q while still running towards them which ends up hitting them with the handle and they dunk with only1 bleed stack on the enemy which does no damage and is seriously disgusting to watch.They always disregard their immobility and chase enemies they will never catch across the map and end up feeding like 0/9 by 20 minutes. So please the only people that can say if darius is a hard to play champion are the people who play him in high Elo.

Tychusfindlay919Jul 19, 20161 votes

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People that say darius is an easy champ are those scrubs who have no idea what they r doing and just go and try and q their enemy whenever it's up, or whenever an enemy gets on top of them. Like "hurr durr I'm being threatened Ima use ma heal move" they always mindlessly rush black cleaver into every mathcup even if they are behind, because "black cleaver is darius' item". Not to mention their pull combo is something like : e,w and q while still running towards them which ends up hitting them with the handle and they dunk with only1 bleed stack on the enemy which does no damage and is seriously disgusting to watch.They always disregard their immobility and chase enemies they will never catch across the map and end up feeding like 0/9 by 20 minutes. So please the only people that can say if darius is a hard to play champion are the people who play him in high Elo.

Yep.

The optimum Darius combo is Q > E > AA > W > AA > Q which gets you five stacks as fast as possible (outside of building full AS Darius and the enemy just standing still) assuming you hit outer Qs.

But lower elo Dariuses are notorious for the E > W > Q which doesn't capitalize on the quirks of Darius like his W being an AA reset and his Q having a low CD.

TheOvermindJul 19, 20161 votes

"Auto attack reset ? What's that ? Lol I never see people auto reset with darius in silver and bronze

Tychusfindlay919Jul 19, 20161 votes

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"Auto attack reset ? What's that ? Lol I never see people auto reset with darius in silver and bronze

Is this sarcastic?

Anyways, AA reset means that Darius can AA and immediately activate his W for another empowered AA (faster than his attack speed).

SnowLeopard91Jul 19, 20161 votes

Truth. I play a lot of Darius, and once you have his kit down, he roflstomps.

PermabannedGarenJul 19, 20161 votes

Darius is by no means the most difficult champion to play, but he probably has the most underrated skill cap in the game. He even has outplay potential now, due to the healing on his Q. Positioning well in a team fight can be the difference between getting blown up and accomplishing nothing and lasting far longer than you have any right to last while dealing out big boy AOE damage.

DorffestApr 15, 20171 votes

Well i want to revive this thread. Darius is by far the easiest to play character in the game. I would recommend him for any person, whos skill is far below the elo they are at. On a scale from 0 to 100 considering the skill you have (Faker being 100, Hardstuck Bronze 5 player is 0) a Darius with 5 can easily beat any other Melee top laner with a scale of 85 and below.

His kit is just waaaay to forgiving and his scalings are insanely broken. I played against him quite often. With some ganks i managed to go 7/0 against him in Lane as Tryndamere. Then with lvl 10 i came with Phantomdancer and Infinity Edge against the lvl 7 Darius with only Phage and guess what. HE FKING DIVED ME UNDER MY TURRET and got my ult and easily survived.

And that was no special game. In another game i played Fiora. Nearly same scenario. I am 5/1 with BC and Hydra vs Ninja Tabi and Phage. Darius could easily fight me without even using his ult. No matter how perfectly i played it, blocking his E and stunning him, procking all 4 ult marks i still ended up losing hard, even tho i was 3 level ahead.

My biggest problem with Darius is that he can build fulltank and easily oneshot any character in one combo, while having the most oppressive lane phase in the game. Ever minion you want to take can be answered by Darius with an easy af engage to take away 50-90% of your hp, before you can react. Darius E and W should have their slow removed entirely, his base movespeed should be lowered by 10 and his passive bleed damage shold be reduced to 80% at all ranks. I dont understand how Darius is allowed to have not a single bad matchup, an insanely strong lane with good sustain and gigantic burst damage while being a full tank and also having a superb mid and late game. Also they should amplify the bleed stacks needed to trigger his passive to at least 7 or higher and his Q shouldnt heal him any more.

Maybe this would bring him to a balanced place where he is not permaban or pick in every single elo until Diamond.

(I am Diamond 5 and this post i meant 100% seriously. This champ has literally no justification to be on this rift like that. If that is balanced then they could make lux's ult global again and her Q snare up to 10 targets while her E has no traveltime and heals her for 100% of the damage dealt.)