New Darius is a worse lane bully than before and is laughable unless his team orientates around him
Lets start with the changes from his passive to his ult.
Passive is nerfed damage wise and no longer gives movespeed but now gives him a high AD steroid and a bleed applying full stacks once he reaches the requirements(5 stacks or a kill with ult), bleed also deals physical damage. He didnt get compensation for losing his movespeed steroid.
While these fhanges alone arent bad, what comes next for this new change is garbage.
Q has a 0.75 second delay. While thats understandable for his oppresive laning, nerfing the damage at all stages of the game and making it never land in lane makes it worse.
W lost the attack speed slow, the only thing letting Darius counter attack attack oriented top laners(Irelia, Rengar early, Tryndamere, Fiora, Gangplank, etc.)
E is the same with a small slow now.
R is the same just now the damage is nerfed at all levels.
New Darius lost his niche of being a bully, now Riven will shit on him harder, Renekton will laugh at him, Rengar can kill him whenever he feels like it now, Irelia can do as she pleases with him now, Nasus wont be bullied as hard by him anymore.
Remember when you gave Veigar the 0.75 second delay on his E that you needed to compensate him out the ass? Darius is getting nerfed across the board except for his passive and E for that.
Dont go through with this rework, horrible unless adjusted massively imo.
top, and this rework will make Darius even easier to dump on.
gimped, I will rule the top lane forever!