New Darius is a worse lane bully than before and is laughable unless his team orientates around him

IsIsGankedParis··2 votes·881 views

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.

4 Comments

CreationFlaw1 votes

Lmao, "we want to buff veigar due to the removal of DFG" Makes Q a skillshot that acts like Lux Q and lowers w cooldown by one second, then makes it so it's three times harder to hit the W, or stun anybody with a brain for that matter, and also nerf the scaling of his ultimate so he's even worse early game.

UltraSceptile1 votes

Why not keep his as is. Lol. It's like the new HUD, we're going to change shit no one felt was bad and then not give a damn about community feedback.

67chrome1 votes

A lot of people agree Darius was in a bad spot. I think he's actually gone the longest without being picked in any major tournament.

That's largely because he's historically been way too oppressive vs. a wide range of melee champions in-lane. Riot couldn't allow him to auto-win, so they nerffed him in a spot where he was essentially competitively nonviable.

Concerning OP Q_Qing about being a worse lane bully, that's exactly what needed to happen with the dunkmaster though.

Ch0c0lateJesus1 votes

I love me some Renekton top, and this rework will make Darius even easier to dump on.

Before I would bait out the Q by jumping on top of them, and causing them to only get the partial damage with the inner ring. A won trade but I still take some damage.

Now with a 0.75 second delay? I'll just dash right into your face and stun your ass when I see you start to cast that shit.

And now with Garen gimped, I will rule the top lane forever!

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