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Recommended Items
Spells:
Ghost
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Items
Ability Order
Hemorrhage (PASSIVE)
Darius Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Vladimir
Vladimir is a hard counter to Darius, his Sanguine Pool can temporarily stop Darius' ult allowing him to Flash while in his pool and avoid death, and his Transfusion allows him to out sustain Darius, making him almost impossible to lane against since Vladimir usually stacks Health and his passive allows him to convert 140% of his AP and get HP in return, he can also get 1 AP for every bonus 2.5 HP he has.
Introduction
This is my second attempt at a guide, please leave your criticism in the comments and I hope you enjoy this build! I will be working on it in the coming days, Thanks!
Darius is a high damage fighter who specializes in dueling and can duel almost any champion in the game, although Darius is not very durable, he has very high base damage, and you can do very well just building full tank. Darius can be played Top or Jungle, but I recommend you play him top, since he cannot really gank a lane without the laner setting up for a gank due to his low CC. Darius top lane is very strong, but can easily be pushed out of lane by a tanky, sustaining, ranged champion like Vladimir who can harass with almost no punishment. |
Last Whisper would help you dish out more damage without your Noxian Guillotine, and would equal a total of 60% Armor Penetration.
You can get Trinity Force so you can proc TF-Sheen on Crippling Strike (Only problem if Rage passive is wasted with BC and TF).
Frozen Mallet along with your passive, Rage (BC/TF), and movement speed runes allow you to stick onto your enemies allowing you to stack your passive with ease.
Randuin's Omen allows you to duel most people due to its attack speed slowing passive(Works great while your W is on CD) and it gives you some health and armor if they are AD heavy.
Guardian Angel gives both MR and AR and it also revives you I recommend you sell it on CD if you are ahead and purchase it after the 5M have passed.
Frozen Heart allows you to slow enemy attack speed in an area around you, allowing you to 2v1/2v2 with ease, it will also help you obtain max CDR, and it gives 100 Armor and 400 Mana. I recommend it against AD heavy teams or if you find yourself running out of Mana easily.
Banshee's Veil can block a single spell every 40 seconds of not taking damage from a enemy champion, I recommend this against a AP heavy team.
Spirit Visage, it can help you get to 30% CDR and it increases all healing effects on you. I recommend this if you have healers on your team and need a bit more MR.
Mercurial Scimitar, if you are ahead and are constantly being shutdown by CC this item is great, it gives 35 MR and it removes all CC from you and grants you 50%+ movement speed for 1 second.
Decimate(Q) is Darius' most damaging basic ability(70/105/140/175/210/ +70% AD) if enemies are struck by the blade of his ax it does(105/157.5/210/262.5/315/ +105% AD) instead. Decimate applies Darius' passive and should be a priority when leveling abilities.
Crippling Strike(W) slows movement speed and attack speed(20/25/30/35/40%) and deals (20/40/60/80/100%) additional physical damage and applies Darius' passive, this should be maxed second unless you are against someone who is stacking health and armor.
Apprehend(E) is Darius' gap closer, you pull enemies within 550 range of your cast, it passively gives (5/10/15/20/25%) Armor Penetration and should be maxed last, unless you are against someone who is heavily stacking Health and Armor.
Noxian Guillotine(R), Darius' dunk! It is a dunk/"leap" that does 160/250/340(+ 75% AD) true damage when you use it on an enemy. The damage can be increased 20% per blood/passive stack, up to a maximum of 320/500/680(+ 150% AD), landing the killing blow with Noxian Guillotine allows it to be recast within 20 seconds, and restores 25/50/100 mana per kill. At Rank 3 Noxian Guillotines cooldown is completely reset upon landing the killing blow!
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