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Choose Champion Build:
Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Ability Order
Hemorrhage (PASSIVE)
Darius Passive Ability
Introduction

Welcome to my Gare- *cough* sorry Darius guide. I prefer him as a top lane and a jungler. His kit is fairly volatile and some even say overpowered. Through out the guide I will show you how to play this monster.
First
Your not a tank, neither is your counter part Garen you were meant to do damage embrace it! so don't have the mentality that you can initiate a team fight, he doesn't do too well. However don't be a afraid to pick off champs, you can 1v1 almost anyone.
Secondly
Your a bully, you cant be a passive turret huger, you need to assert your lane dominance. Now please play smart don't over extend, but make sure your presence is known.
Finally
Your weakness, yes everyone has one, and knowing your counter can better prepare you to play better and become the executioner you were born to be.
Pros
Karthus
Nothing much else
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Great damage, even with a lot of tank items
BLEEDS
Goes hard on the paint for those kills
BLEEDS
His ult dose true damage
Garen on steroids
Bleeds for dayyyys
His ult refreshes if you kill your target with it
BLEEDS
Has a pull
Passive armor pen
Did I mention the bleeds?
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No escapes
Gets focused HARD
Crowd control kills him
Can take a lot of the teams kills (even more then

Nothing much else
This refers to the first rule, your a damage dealer, so i build him offensively. 21/9/0 I take [Summoner's Wrath] because its free stats, the ap doesn't do much but the dot synergizes well with your passive. I take the armor masteries in defense because top lane is almost 100% ad champs so you need to mitigate their damage. Now lets not forget the rare cases of ap such as, Cho'gath,kennen,rumble,ect. so i still go magic resist. When jungling you need the durability so you can gank better and more deadly, being able to take more pain while ganking leads to more kills and getting more fed. I take the magic penatration, you may be asking your self , bloodsfury are you crazy? hes a physical dealer, that's just a waste, so hear me out. His passive [Hemorrhage] scales with physcial damage yes, BUT, heres the catch, Deals magic damage so if you can ignore the magic resist that they may or may not have, you bleeds will hurt, A LOT.




I got armor pen marks because you still deal mainly physcial damage so armor pen stays strong. For seals its armor because mainly top lane consists of tanker brusiers that deal physical damage (Cept anti bruiser [Lux] :P) as for jungling, you need the armor to survive the jungle creeps, pretty standard on all junglers. I take magic resist per level because not only do they out level the flat runes by lvl 8, but your gaining level really fast in a solo lane and by the time you need to deal with the pesky mages you'll be ready to drop the axe on there head.I just LOVE movement quints on this guy, it gives you the extra push to take down your enemies , i know there a bit expensive but I'll tell ya it was the greatest investment I've made in runes.
So your skills are all very handy and all but your main damage comes from using them correctly and in proper order. Lets go through the skills and see what each of them do.
Your Q
Decimate causes damage in a circle around you dealing more if the targets are hit of the tip of axe or the outer ring of the spell. Its a mini [Garen] spin that also applies your passive which is really good for poking and harrasing.
Your W
Crippling Strike Causes your next basic attack to slow the target, the cooldown is also reduced based on how many stacks of [Hemorrhage] you have on the target. Basically your chasing skill, it makes sure your victims cannot escape. It ends up with a 2-3 second cooldown with max bleeds very great slow.
Your E
Apprehend Pulls all targets in a cone to Darius, while also, giving passive armor pen. Basically this will grab the people you need out of position and your team can focus them down. Its like a blitz grab, only a really short range. Use as they run away so you can slow them and bring the pain (his ult).I max this first because of the early armor penetration, because its real easy to build armor against Darius early game but if you have enough to penetrate it, then there wasting there gold trying to counter you.
Your R
Noxian Guillotine Basically your bread and butter skill. It does true damage and gets amplified by up to 2X damage for the amount of bleeds you have on the target. It also refreshes the cooldown if you kill someone with the ability. This is what makes Darius well... Darius. He becomes a kill machine with this ability by just dropping the hammer, rather axe, on their heads.
Your Q


Your W


Your E


Your R












Early Game
I start












Mid game
Now your team should have dropped one or two towers and you should have plenty of gold in your coin purse. Go back to base and get your self your





Late game
Ok, Your pushing down mid lane, You've gotten inhib turret on mid and are working on bot and top. Team fights are breaking out left and right, and your contesting Baron Nashor. Time to break out the big guns. Get a

Darius is a very strong, if not, the strongest bruiser in the game currently. He devastates top lane and can destroy teams easily. All in all hes an animal up in top lane and is a force to be reckoned with.
Thanks for reading my guide on Darius, The Hand of Noxus, If this helped you be sure to up vote it, it helps a lot. Also check out my
Hecarim Guide(here)
Thanks for reading my guide on Darius, The Hand of Noxus, If this helped you be sure to up vote it, it helps a lot. Also check out my

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