When you see a ranged top lane but you main Darius

Renekton, Illoai, Riven, Fiora, Jayce, Pantheon, Tryndamere, Wukong, Kled.

There are a considerable amount of counters to Darius.

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the only difference is that gives you actually good damage and better sticking power.

It's a good thing people in NA never caught on to frozen mallet+rylais+botrk kennen.

You are implying that you would actually trade with a ranged champion with Darius which makes no sense. You will almost always lose a trade with a ranged champion simply because they are able to outrange you and usually have better DPS/health regen via lifesteal.

As Darius you wait until they mess up and you take advantage of that using stormraiders to keep pace with them (most of the top ranged champs have self peel do you need the slow resistance and extra movement speed).

Grasp does not provide that and it's better when you are actually trading because you are slowly getting a health advantage over your opponent.

In laymans terms, you use Stomraiders to 100 to 0 them quickly because you can't "trade" with your ranged opponent. Once you go in you don't stop until they die or burn something to get away.

I think this is what he's trying to argue:

You wouldn't be able to stay close enough constantly for the auto attack effect to be useful. Stormraider's also doesn't run on a time limit.

Stormraiders also provides the ability to stick to the opponent for a short time, whereas grasp is bonus damage and healing, meaning if they could break away, stormraider's surge would be more useful than grasp.

It seems like more of a preference thing to me really, and reading isn't actually as simple as it seems since you need to think carefully about what they're saying.

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I wanted to ask you before, why DD?

It keeps me a relevant damage threat even without noxian might. The omniphysical vamp also empowers my Q healing and introduces healing to my AAs and W.

The noxian guillotine as well as the hemorrhage (bleed) scales off of bonus AD only, so steraks wouldn't make my dunk scarier. Steraks also only grants me equivalent AD to DD after I get chunked to hell and the shield goes off.

DD grants me an anti burst passive and the healing makes up for a lot of the health I otherwise would have had with an item like steraks, while also providing more potency because it's bonus AD.

Finally, unlike an item like steraks, DD completes the final 10% CDR in my build for a total of 40% cdr.

I run SoTA to make up for some of the HP loss, so I still usually end out at around 4k HP without elixir with this build while still retaining a scary 280-290 or so AD late game without noxian might.