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Darius build & stats

FighterTank A 89 games · patch 16.18
Win rate
57.3%
Pick rate
4.9%
Ban rate
0.0%
Division
All divisions

Recommended build

Chosen by win rate among builds with enough games, from ranked matches of high-elo players on patch 16.18

Built from single items

Best three items so far

Spirit Visage
Spirit Visage
2,700 gold
Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage
3,200 gold
Death's Dance
Death's Dance
3,300 gold
9,200 gold
66.7% WR each item separately

Boots

Mercury's Treads
Mercury's Treads
1,250 gold
64.8% 54 games

Runes

Precision Precision + Resolve Resolve
66.7% WR
33 games · 37% 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.

Precision Precision
Press the Attack Lethal Tempo Conqueror Fleet Footwork
Presence of Mind Absorb Life Triumph
Legend: Bloodline Legend: Alacrity Legend: Haste
Coup de Grace Cut Down Last Stand
Resolve Resolve
Shield Bash Demolish Font of Life
Conditioning Second Wind Bone Plating
Unflinching Overgrowth Revitalize
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling

Summoner spells

Flash Mark
61.1% 36 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

  • Darius wins 57.3% of games as any role on patch 16.18 (89 games).
  • Most common core: Sterak's Gage → Trinity Force → Dead Man's Plate — 60% win rate over 5 games.
  • Take Conqueror as keystone: picked in 83% of games with a 59% win rate.

Items

Most common sets of three completed items

Core build

Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage
Trinity Force
Trinity Force
Dead Man's Plate
Dead Man's Plate
60.0% WR
5 games · 6% pick
Sterak's Gage
Sterak's Gage
Trinity Force
Trinity Force
Death's Dance
Death's Dance
100.0% WR
4 games · 4% pick
Trinity Force
Trinity Force
Dead Man's Plate
Dead Man's Plate
Force of Nature
Force of Nature
50.0% WR
4 games · 4% pick

Boots

Mercury's Treads
Mercury's Treads
64.8% WR
54 games · 61% pick
Plated Steelcaps
Plated Steelcaps
60.0% WR
20 games · 22% pick
Boots of Swiftness
Boots of Swiftness
25.0% WR
8 games · 9% pick

Legendary items by win rate

ItemWin ratePick
66.7% 24% (21)
65.4% 29% (26)
64.3% 31% (28)
62.5% 9% (8)
61.5% 44% (39)
58.5% 46% (41)
57.1% 8% (7)
54.5% 12% (11)
50.0% 38% (34)
50.0% 20% (18)
46.4% 31% (28)
40.0% 6% (5)

Runes

Most played full pages and keystone win rates

Precision Precision + Resolve Resolve
66.7% WR
33 games · 37% 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.

Precision Precision
Press the Attack Lethal Tempo Conqueror Fleet Footwork
Presence of Mind Absorb Life Triumph
Legend: Bloodline Legend: Alacrity Legend: Haste
Coup de Grace Cut Down Last Stand
Resolve Resolve
Shield Bash Demolish Font of Life
Conditioning Second Wind Bone Plating
Unflinching Overgrowth Revitalize
Shards
Adaptive Force Attack Speed Ability Haste
Adaptive Force Move Speed Health Scaling
Health Tenacity and Slow Resist Health Scaling
Precision Precision + Domination Domination
50.0% WR
26 games · 29% pick
Conqueror Triumph Legend: Haste Last Stand Taste of Blood Treasure Hunter
Resolve Resolve + Precision Precision
75.0% WR
4 games · 4% pick
Grasp of the Undying Font of Life Conditioning Overgrowth Legend: Haste Triumph

Keystones

  • 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. 59.5%83% pick
  • Grasp of the Undying Grasp of the Undying Every 4s your next attack on a champion deals bonus magic damage, heals you, and permanently increases your health. 57.1%8% pick
  • Stormraider's Surge Stormraider's Surge Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum health grants a burst of MS and Slow Resist. 0.0%3% pick

Summoner spells

  • Flash Ghost Flash + Ghost 55.1%55% pick
  • Flash Mark Flash + Mark 61.1%40% 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...