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Darius Mid build & stats

FighterTank 15 games · patch 16.17
Win rate
53.3%
Pick rate
0.1%
Ban rate
8.2%

Recommended build

Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.17

Built from single items

Best three items so far

Death's Dance
Death's Dance
3,300 g
Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage
3,200 g
Youmuu's Ghostblade
Youmuu's Ghostblade
2,800 g
9,300 g
75.0% WR each item separately

Boots

Chainlaced Crushers
Chainlaced Crushers
1,250 g
85.7% 7 games

Runes

Sorcery Sorcery + Precision Precision
42.9% WR
7 games · 47% pick
Stormraider's Surge
Stormraider's Surge

Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.

Nimbus Cloak Nimbus Cloak
Celerity Celerity
Gathering Storm Gathering Storm
Legend: Alacrity Legend: Alacrity
Triumph Triumph
Shards AS AF HP

Summoner spells

Flash Ghost 37.5% 8 games

Each line is the variant with the best win rate among those played enough times, not simply the most popular one. Win rates are smoothed so a lucky three-game build can't top the list. Not enough players have finished the same three items yet, so the core above is the three strongest items measured one by one. Sample sizes are shown next to every choice.

Tips for Darius

Generated from this patch's numbers

  • Take Stormraider's Surge as keystone: picked in 73% of games with a 55% win rate.

Items

Most common sets of three completed items

Core build

Not enough games yet.

Starting items

Doran's Helm
Doran's Helm
Health Potion
Health Potion
100.0% WR
2 games · 13% pick

Boots

Chainlaced Crushers
Chainlaced Crushers
85.7% WR
7 games · 47% pick
Swiftmarch
Swiftmarch
0.0% WR
4 games · 27% pick
Armored Advance
Armored Advance
50.0% WR
4 games · 27% pick

Legendary items by win rate

ItemWin ratePick
100.0% 27% (4)
60.0% 33% (5)
50.0% 67% (10)
50.0% 40% (6)
50.0% 27% (4)
33.3% 40% (6)

Runes

Most played full pages and keystone win rates

Sorcery Sorcery + Precision Precision
42.9% WR
7 games · 47% pick
Stormraider's Surge
Stormraider's Surge

Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist.

Nimbus Cloak Nimbus Cloak
Celerity Celerity
Gathering Storm Gathering Storm
Legend: Alacrity Legend: Alacrity
Triumph Triumph
Shards AS AF HP
Precision Precision + Sorcery Sorcery
66.7% WR
3 games · 20% pick
Conqueror Triumph Legend: Alacrity Last Stand Axiom Arcanist Celerity

Keystones

  • Stormraider's Surge Stormraider's Surge Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist. 54.5%73% pick
  • Conqueror Conqueror Gain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions. 50.0%27% pick

Summoner spells

  • Flash Ghost Flash + Ghost 37.5%53% pick
  • Flash Ignite Flash + Ignite 50.0%27% pick
  • Exhaust Flash Exhaust + Flash 100.0%20% pick

Abilities & skill order

  • PHemorrhage

    Darius' attacks and damaging abilities cause enemies to bleed for physical damage over 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Darius enrages and gains massive Attack Damage when his target reaches max stacks.

  • QDecimate

    Darius winds up and swings his axe in a wide circle. Enemies struck by the blade take more damage than those struck by the handle. Darius heals based on enemy champions and large monsters hit by the blade.

  • WCrippling Strike

    Darius's next attack strikes an enemy's crucial artery. As they bleed out, their Move Speed is slowed.

  • EApprehend

    Darius hones his axe, passively causing his physical damage to ignore a percentage of his target's Armor. When activated, Darius sweeps up his enemies with his axe's hook and pulls them to him.

  • RNoxian Guillotine

    Darius leaps to an enemy champion and strikes a lethal blow, dealing true damage. This damage is increased for each stack of Hemorrhage on the target. If Noxian Guillotine is a killing blow, its cooldown is refreshed for...