Darius's problem, from a challenger Mordekaiser main

https://i.gyazo.com/f76042c3bba819339de8e015136b87c9.png

He's TOO TELEGRAPHED

look, I know that Darius is fine below but he's literally a "pick to lose" champion in high elo and he's like one of the only one like this i can remember a lot of champions picked few games but Darius is legit never picked

so why is Darius garbage in high elo while being good in low elo? unlike Mordekaiser?

Because obviously the first reason is that Mordekaiser has more range than him, Mordekaiser has 1100 range on W 600 range on ult 525 range on E But the second reason is that Mordekaiser is way less telegraphed than Darius if tristana happens to be in your range for 1 sec as morde, you can still apply one Q and recast W to remove 70% of her hp, you won't kill her but at least you did something with Darius, unless you have noxian might you won't do anything

Darius is legit the only melee i can think about that does absolutly no burst damage before 5 stacks+ult this is what makes him unviable in high elo, because as an immobile melee targets won't stay in your range for 3 or 4 seconds unless something happened

Easy way to fixe him

-reduce his delays -nerf his damage

what will happen: -he will be able to do something in high elo -unchanged in low elo, cuz darius would have anyway been able to do his things due to people cc'ing him/kiting him less efficiently

example of what can happen: -Noxian might bonus AD changed from a flat amount at 5 stacks, to a flat amount on each stack (think of old fervor) -passive damage nerf -Q is now instant at rank 5, but damage and healing are nerfed -W damage increased -R damage buffed when target has 1-2-3 stacks, unchanged with 4 or 5 stacks