This Darius Build Guide is for Darius, who is a really great, strong top laner with scary harrass as well as few counterpicks. His harass is insane because Darius causes your enemy to bleed slowly. He also has a great 'Garen-Like' ultimate that is simply just better because it resets in team fights allowing you to execute multiple enemies.
Armor seals since its the best rune in slot most of the time.
Magic resist blues for the same reason as the armor seals.
Quints are preference, attack damage helps you deal more damage and last hit. Armor penetration gives you the most damage but you might have a harder time last hitting. MS makes you more mobile in lane. Any of the 3 will work.
Masteries
Points Available:30 / 30
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You can swap the points in Tenacious(4th column 6th row) into armor or magic resistance depending on who you're laning against.
Offensive Tree: Self explanatory, got to get that damage/ armor pen. If you have trouble with cs (which you shouldn't) you can take 1-2 points in Butcher instead of Fury.
Defensive Tree: Maxing the defensive tree compliments Darius more than maxing the offensive tree. If in draft pick, be sure to switch the points on Hardiness (Armor) & Resistance (MR).
Summoner Spells
Flash
Teleports your Champion to target nearby location under your mouse cursor.
Flash
Ignite
Targets a single champion dealing 50 + (lvl x 20) true damage over 5 seconds. Also reduces the target’s healing and regeneration by 50%.
Ignite
Flash
Need at least one escape on Darius since Darius has 0 escapes. Play passively early on in the game especially after you use Flash, because then you will have absolutely no escapes.
Flash can be used by simply Flashing away from an enemy Champion or over terrain to escape safely. You can also use Flash aggressively to force a fight on an enemy Champion or to get a last hit on an enemy Champion.
Ignite
Great finishing Summoner Spell and has massive DoT when combined with Darius' passive. When you are going in for a kill, the instant the enemy Champion has 5 Stacks of Hemorrhage and he is slowed, Ignite the enemy Champion and use your ultimate to secure the kill.
Ignite can be used to reduce Healing/Health Regeneration by 50% on an Enemy Champion. If the enemy team has a Soraka, make sure to Ignite Soraka in a teamfight, but not to early. Try to Ignite Soraka 3 seconds into a teamfight, which is when Soraka will start using all of her heals.
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Exhaust
I rarely get Exhaust over Ignite on Darius, because Ignite gives Darius heavy DoT and guarantees Darius a kill when he has his Ignite up, ultimate up, and 5 Stacks of Hemorrhage on an enemy Champion. The only time I would get Exhaust is if our team has absolutely no Exhausts or if I think a certain champion on the enemy team will have insanely high burst damage that they just need to be Exhausted constantly.
Which lane are you taking him in? If it's bot, few high-level people expect to have a dar bot, so the typical adcs haven't figured out how to counter him. If it catches on, people will start learning how to counter him.
I really like this build on Darius, because its very situation depending on what your team needs and what the other team is doing. For the longest time I have been playing Darius with Phreak's Champion Spotlight Build with Dorian's Blade, Ninja Tabi, Frozen Mallet, Shurelia, and Maw. I've always played Darius this way, and I did a little less then fine.
This build changed that, Triple kills and firstbloods. A very good Guide, and I will be using this build for as long as I can.
I add in a Bkoddthirster and don't get GA. I personally find that there are more useful items out there. He also doesn't fall off that much if he isn't farmed...allthough I'm not llvl 30, so that may change. I like the sunfire cape and black cleaver, but I find that BT is more useful so I get it first.
If he aint played tanky at higher levels he will get focused first and GA might be everything you need to get up after your first death and dunk a pentakill.
I've only needed to build tanky once, and that was against a lvl 30 summoner playing Lee Sin. Although I am only lvl 14, so it probably does vary.... And I find it very hard to get enough gold to get a GA after my first death.
Randuin's Omen seems better, as it provides more armor plus the shield and slow.
Last edited by KjarRokulaine on 1/23/2013 5:58:26 PM
Well that explains everything. At low levels you might as well go 5 BTS Sorcerers and you will still dominate.
When you reach level 30 you'll soon realise that you can't build pure DMG on Darius, AKA BT, IE, Etc., at least not without getting 3-4 defensive items first. If you want to do crazy damage, play AD or AP carry
I came up with a better build than what I had: randuin's omen, sunfirecape, and thornmail as the core items. Haven't figured anything else out yet, though. If any of you have any suggestions, they would be much appreciated. Prolly add in BT or Black Cleaver.
Last edited by KjarRokulaine on 1/25/2013 9:23:18 AM
I have a lvl 30 friend suggest building FM over sunfire since it takes 10 seconds for sunfire to do 400 dmg.
And I don't remember anything about armor not stacking... What kind of idea is that anyway?? Takes away the usefulness of tanks.
Randuin's allows Dar to do more dmg since they are slowed.
so maybe FM, randuin's, Thornmail (still useful, because you don't even have to do anything and they get damaged). And since Fm gives health and Thornmail gives armor, it doesn't change the bonus.
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Posted 4/20/2013 12:16:04 PMEver heard of adc darius?....lets just say there are no counters to adc darius....
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Posted 5/6/2013 8:59:56 AMWhich lane are you taking him in? If it's bot, few high-level people expect to have a dar bot, so the typical adcs haven't figured out how to counter him. If it catches on, people will start learning how to counter him.
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Posted 3/31/2013 12:10:24 PMI really like this build on Darius, because its very situation depending on what your team needs and what the other team is doing. For the longest time I have been playing Darius with Phreak's Champion Spotlight Build with Dorian's Blade, Ninja Tabi, Frozen Mallet, Shurelia, and Maw. I've always played Darius this way, and I did a little less then fine.
This build changed that, Triple kills and firstbloods. A very good Guide, and I will be using this build for as long as I can.
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Posted 2/27/2013 6:04:47 PMVolibear's also a good synergy-he said he wasn't playing very well but he allowed me to pick up almost every kill in top lane with his q.
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Posted 2/24/2013 12:07:38 AMGot a few dunder kills, pretty good guide! Awesome.
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Posted 2/13/2013 4:43:01 PMDarius -_-... IS SO OP!!!
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Posted 5/8/2013 10:09:19 AMno dude :)
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Posted 1/16/2013 9:14:44 PMNow that flask costs 345 gold, is it still a worthwhile starting item? If you start it, you can now only have three potions or one potion and a ward
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Posted 1/15/2013 8:16:39 AMI add in a Bkoddthirster and don't get GA. I personally find that there are more useful items out there. He also doesn't fall off that much if he isn't farmed...allthough I'm not llvl 30, so that may change. I like the sunfire cape and black cleaver, but I find that BT is more useful so I get it first.
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Posted 1/22/2013 3:49:57 PMIf he aint played tanky at higher levels he will get focused first and GA might be everything you need to get up after your first death and dunk a pentakill.
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Posted 1/23/2013 3:36:35 PMI've only needed to build tanky once, and that was against a lvl 30 summoner playing Lee Sin. Although I am only lvl 14, so it probably does vary.... And I find it very hard to get enough gold to get a GA after my first death.
Randuin's Omen seems better, as it provides more armor plus the shield and slow.
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Posted 1/24/2013 6:46:35 AMWell that explains everything.
At low levels you might as well go 5 BTS Sorcerers and you will still dominate.
When you reach level 30 you'll soon realise that you can't build pure DMG on Darius, AKA BT, IE, Etc., at least not without getting 3-4 defensive items first. If you want to do crazy damage, play AD or AP carry
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Posted 1/25/2013 9:18:04 AMI came up with a better build than what I had: randuin's omen, sunfirecape, and thornmail as the core items. Haven't figured anything else out yet, though. If any of you have any suggestions, they would be much appreciated. Prolly add in BT or Black Cleaver.
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Posted 1/26/2013 2:27:29 AMYeah, don't build that.
Sunfire and Randuin are fine, Thornmail isn't. In S3 you can't stack armor, and thornmail just sucks unless they have like 2-3 fed Auto Attackers.
If you want to go tanky, FM > Maw > Omen > Bulwark > BC/BT/GA/Warmog
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Posted 1/27/2013 8:56:58 PMI have a lvl 30 friend suggest building FM over sunfire since it takes 10 seconds for sunfire to do 400 dmg.
And I don't remember anything about armor not stacking... What kind of idea is that anyway?? Takes away the usefulness of tanks.
Randuin's allows Dar to do more dmg since they are slowed.
so maybe FM, randuin's, Thornmail (still useful, because you don't even have to do anything and they get damaged). And since Fm gives health and Thornmail gives armor, it doesn't change the bonus.