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Darius, the Chimera Champion

Joxac·3/17/2014, 3:12:05 AM·1 votes·688 views

Today we're going to make a champion. Let's get a big pot and add some ingredients:

Brand passive, however lets make it stack up to 5 times, and it will scale with AD

Jax Empower, we'll just make it stack with ad and give it a slow instead

Garen Ultimate. However for this recipe, the ult will deal true damage, gain bonus damage on passive stacks, and will reset if it slays an enemy

Blitzcrank pull. Don't worry it'll be half of the range, but to make up for it, this ability will have item 3035 as a passive to get past anyone that tries to build against our champ

Renekton Cull of the Meek. Although we'll take away the healing, we'll give it just enough power so that even with a full tank build, it will chunk anyone hit

Now then, what could we do to top it off....oh yeah! item 3078 Rage as a passive, so even if someone can somehow slip through the pulls, they won't run fast enough

Mix it all together aaaaaaaaaand Darius wow look at that, we made a champion!

Joking aside, really, Darius has the unique aspects of several champs that give them their edge, and is a combination of them. Does the community have any ideas on tweaks to his ratios/abilities, a kit rework, or should he simply be removed?

As for me, my thoughts would be either moving his hemorrhage stacks into one ability, or to make it so he can't ult until he has all 5 stacks, or maybe both. As far as the rest, maybe his base stats should be made so that he has to choose what role he should be instead of building a typical tank build and still shredding through a team.

10 Comments

Sir ArmaMalum3/17/2014, 2:02:23 PM2 votes

Your argument is kinda like saying Lux has a skillshot and Ez has a skillshot except take off the snare. So I'm just going to ignore the chimera bit and go on to Darius weaknesses.

Darius is a lane bully, quite simply put, and that's hard to play against with a decent number of champions, but it's nowhere near impossible.

  1. Darius has absurd mana costs early. If he's spamming his Q, he will be oom quite quickly.

  2. Darius has an absurdly short effective range. Seriously, compare his spell ranges (pull included) to other champs. Ranged champs eat him for breakfast.

  3. His passive doesn't hurt that much, unless you let him refresh it. If you get hit with his bleed ust back off a hair and let it time out. 1 stack should be largely mitigated by simple health regen.

  4. He has no movement speed buff unless you give it to him. His passive gives ms when it hits champs, so giving him a ms boost is in your control.

Dark ravens 773/17/2014, 4:12:33 AM1 votes

Dude darius is not that over powered he is just strong all you got to do is to stop him early and build health cause he got true damage and amor pen. lots of champs can carry well fed. actually alot can but all ya got to do is be good.

yeldahman133/19/2014, 11:42:18 PM1 votes

words cant explain how much i hate darius. He is the combination of so many op things put together. like seriously i could survive a fight with him with a good amount of health left and his bleed alone would kill me. it could get worse than a fucking teemo shroom!he is op as fuk. but due to my low elo ranking i dont fight as much as a gold or plaat player would.hehe. if i do i shut him down with kennen!