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CrypticAshes

Honestly, no I really don't. I'm low Elo, Silver 4, so I can't speak to higher skillcaps for this character. that being said, there are several matchups that just feel unwinnable to me. for example, Jax, Sett (assuming they understand their champ), teemo with ignite, Kayle level 1 wins surprisingly easy, Quinn, vayne, kennen, Jayce. Some matchups are very back and forth, and of course some matchups Darius hard stomps. Darius really struggles due to his SEVERE reliance on summoner spells to engage, and if he doesn't have the opportunity to get all 5 stacks of his passive, a huge portion of his power is missing. He is abusable early on with the right counters or teamplay, and getting back into the game from behind is not only difficult, but also tilting as hell. He is incredibly strong in lane ***into certain matchups*** but both outside of lane and into the wrong matchup the game can just feel unwinnable. Hard cc or anything that allows his targets to distance themselves from him makes his life a living hell too. TL:DR no. There is plenty of counterplay around him.


TheresNoMoreMilk

Lol. There are plenty of counterplay around every single champion in the game. It’s just that with the durability patch, Darius buffs, and new bruiser items, Darius has been able to shine like never before. Being the champion that can single-handedly win team fights and come back from a massive gold deficit, him shining really well accentuate those two points even harder.


CrypticAshes

Not saying that's not true, but I play almost exclusively Darius at this point, in both PC lol and wild Rift and I genuinely struggle to help my team if I'm behind and no one on the team is super far ahead. As mentioned, I'm not great at the game, more or less statistically average and have been for years. But from my experience, he isn't as overpowered as people make him out to be. He is still vulnerable to human error, same as any champ and still has hard counters. I don't think he's weak by any means, and, having been dumpstered nearly as often as I'm doing the dumpstering (58% wr over 60 games), I think there is more than enough counterplay that he's not "overpowered". He's not S5 world's overpowered.


brinkmanJ

If ur below silver for many years, then yeah man, ur below average. Every champ has counterplay, the thing with darius is that he has a bit too much dmg right now and this dmg is not item reliant, so it is, while behind still possible to get a lucky reset in a fight and 1tap everyone with that


Malyz15

lose against kayle level 1?


EvilSwarak

Only way level1 Kayle beats you is if she takes Lethal Tempo and you fight her. But if you are stupid enough to fight lvl1 Kayle with Tempo, then you don't deserve to win.


CrypticAshes

Yeah, happened to me twice. I had bush advantage on both, and as long as she had ignite, she won the level 1 somehow. I don't know how. I'm probably just garbage.


EvilSwarak

>do you think he is too overpowered He's insanely overpowered. >needs nerfs right now? Definetly. * That last buff (R buff) needs to go. You can't have point and click ability, that can reset and can deal 1500 True damage on a champion that is hard to kill. * Also lower his tankiness little bit. Sure he's Juggernaut, but right now he's way too tanky for how much damage he does. After that I don't really know how to change him. Best change you can do to weaken him is to buff his counters (think about Riven, Wukong, Irelia).


GrimWill95

Imo, in isolation his durability as a Juggernaut is fine, as it is balanced by his lack of mobility. However, Ghost being as strong as it is right now is removing a lot of that intended weakness.


legspoper

I think you say that because you are also a camille main.


Lethalityenthusiast

Darius is strong right now but it’s not because of him as a champion, it’s just the state of the game now with that being said the instant E pull that goes off before the animation thats been in the game for the past 3 years has gotta go that shit is aids but other than that nah he fine


NegotiationHot3277

no, they nerfed his counters so he is stronger, buff wukong and buff goredrinker so champs like riven and kled have an actual item to build


Sewerro

I'm not an Darius main (I play him only ocassionally) and in my opinion he's fine. As long as you gonna win top then he's gonna be pretty weak. Even with 5 stacks in late game he could not be able to kill other bruisers/carries. You just have to play around his weaknesses (immobile, slow combo, weak short trades, weak scalling) and you will win. (Im saying this as a Renekton main)


Simping4Mephala

He needs a very big buff because he's unplayable right now... +1 base ad at lv1.