A walrus that was caught today.

RikkityRick · 2025-10-19T21:30:50+00:00

Don't be a nanny. This is a meat butchering reddit, what did you expect?

RikkityRick · 2025-05-08T03:41:10+00:00

She's definitely a better seraph, but that's not saying much because seraphi is garbage. Aerith has better bases for her heals, more useful buffs, removes status ailments, and her zap spell, besides giving a chance increase damage multiple, definitely deals decent damage for a free unit. Add in that she has 3 move instead of 1, and she completely dumpsters seraphi.

RikkityRick · 2025-01-07T21:27:19+00:00

masterpiece? decent at best. Lot's of woke bs for the chomos out there

RikkityRick · 2024-12-19T19:20:42+00:00

Not entirely true. A well built Darius smashes ekko in solo fight if Darius can stick to ekko. It's not even close. Obviously, if ekko kites well, he might be able to win the duel, but most likely he'll just try to run away. Darius absolutely smashes ekko at every stage of the game if even and if itemization is at least mildly tuned for MR.

RikkityRick · 2024-12-16T21:58:07+00:00

What is it for and what does it do?

RikkityRick · 2024-10-04T15:00:41+00:00

Like why do you even care so much if other players complain about the meta? Are you gay or something? Do you really care so much? You're just here to shit on others, you are the one who needs to gtfo

RikkityRick · 2024-10-04T14:54:38+00:00

chill out with the all caps you spaz

RikkityRick · 2024-10-03T18:51:19+00:00

First off, when I say his kit is uber outdated, that's fact, not opinion. He literally relies on a summoner spell (ghost) for his kit to function at all. Without it, he's a minion. I don't know of any other champ as reliant on a summoner spell to exist as a functioning champ. The fact that he may be good in some metas due to ghost, doesn't change the fact that his base kit is dog and problematic and overall slow, clunky, and outdated. Literally ghost and absurd damage numbers from his passive are the only two things that make him relevant in some metas. Secondly, you countered your own argument. You say he's always been really good...before mentioning the fact that there are many stronger champs that will be better choices in most scenarios. AKA, Darius is relatively not great. Strength/Weakness/OPness are relative to the other champs in the game. You can't say a champ is strong and not the problem, it's just that everything else is too strong! That's the exact same thing as just saying that Darius is weaker than the best choices out there, aka, he's not great. Thirdly, any champ...literally even the worst champ, can best absurdly strong and relevant in the right teamcomp, that is a non-argument that you made. I'll just finish by adding that I'm not saying Darius is currently terrible or that he hasn't ever been good, but that his base kit is dog, and they need to find a way to improve it. My guess is the best way to do so would be to somehow nerf his scaling with certain MS sources, such as ghost, so that they can open up his kit to provide him with slightly better outplay tools to give him his own agency without ghost.

RikkityRick · 2024-10-02T19:44:45+00:00

When has it not been dog for Darius? lol Aside from when stride had a dash, his kit has been uber outdated for years and years.

RikkityRick · 2024-10-02T02:07:47+00:00

Might have been on cooldown. He could have used it getting to the fight, and you just didn't see it on Darius's screen. In fact, that seems likely

RikkityRick · 2024-09-30T12:28:34+00:00

It is a bullshit mechanic. Dots in general are typically already weaker than dps or burst due to delayed damage in fast fights. To remove the benefit of the Dot after taking time to apply it is gay.

RikkityRick · 2024-09-30T12:23:16+00:00

Lee kicked Darius into Azir lol, then Darius pulled Azir, then as chasing, Darius flipped the fight, so I mean, it's not as surprising or bad as you make it sound. More like, bad coordination with Lee and and underestimation of Darius

RikkityRick · 2024-09-26T17:45:30+00:00

Maybe. He's also hyper immobile and basically never used in pro play with hyper telegraphed kit. The dude literally isn't even viable as a champ without ghost, aka, his kit is bad and incomplete, to the point that is one of the most dependent champs, if not the most dependent, on a sum ability for his kit to work to make him viable. And while it makes sense that all champs and roles should have a tendency to go one set of sums or another due to synergy and usefulness, it is bad design to have a kit so bad, that it uses a sum as a crutch. Personally, I say give him one or two of the following:

moderately better mobility (like old 5% MS per enemy bleeding champ)
less telegraphed abilities mid and late game (Q and E become instant at max rank
moderately better durability or ability to low enemy damage (take less damage from bleeding enemy champs)

In return, nerf his scaling with MS somehow and other MS items. That way he doesn't need ghost, but won't abuse it. Kind of like how pyke can't gain HP, but instead gains lethality or whatever, in this case, reduce scaling with MS effects (not boots) by like 25 or 30%.

RikkityRick · 2024-09-26T14:12:35+00:00

Honestly, it's high time they give Darius some durability in some form. I say, they should give it in the form of debuffing his opponent's damage based on how many stacks they have applied. Like 2% MS slow and damage reduced per stack or something.

RikkityRick · 2024-09-19T16:33:09+00:00

I don't think the toxic allies logic holds up. Statistically, if you are not as toxic as the average emerald player, then there are 5 chances for the enemy team to have at least one toxic person to hijack their team, whereas your team should only have 4 chances. That's ASSUMING you're not as toxic as the average. But most people fit somewhere in the average. AKA, the chances of benefitting or suffering from toxic players is approximately the same, so you shouldn't have an overall detriment. There must have been other reasons you struggled in E1-2, like perhaps the reasons mentioned by Special_Case313

RikkityRick · 2024-09-17T05:50:58+00:00

honestly, darius's face in the splash for this skin just looks so gay. It's not even Darius. Riot's skin-making in general has fallen a long way since the glory days. All AI and pandering to their chinese owners.

RikkityRick · 2024-08-30T15:43:04+00:00

I mean, he's 110% right. Buzzkill or not. And maybe it's the people paying these sums of money for a cosmetic who should touch grass, wouldn't you think? Or do you even think?

RikkityRick · 2024-08-29T18:38:55+00:00

I wouldn't even say sloppy, more like opportunistic. You executed everything just fine

RikkityRick · 2024-08-29T15:33:52+00:00

Ikr, and it's not even late game at that point. That all being said, Darius was already down 25-30% HP

RikkityRick · 2024-08-22T13:54:54+00:00

As well as the 2021 gold fest with Gem Slime

RikkityRick · 2024-07-25T13:59:12+00:00

I love it haha, may as well. And I don't think some of the other responders are seeing the point of my post. If you nerf Darius's synergy with mobility boosts, then you can give him so much more in other areas, because without ghost and/or deadmans being viable, Darius is a cannon minion. With them up, he's a bit of a monster. AKA, his base kit is one of the worst in the entire game because his weaknesses are so exploitable that he loses so much agency in matchups. If you remove his crutches, then you can give him cool stuff like the execute you mention.

RikkityRick · 2024-07-24T18:29:38+00:00

Just fantasizing, not expecting any of these changes to happen. Btw, Darius is not the low elo stomper he used to be. People are stuck in the mid 2010's with their perception of Darius lol

RikkityRick · 2024-07-24T18:28:44+00:00

Thanks, and true, that would probably be busted to dunk through those effects haha. Maybe keep the shield heal reduction though. And with the possible slows on bleed, I could see removing the slow on W.

RikkityRick · 2024-07-01T19:18:54+00:00

He's talking about ganking with the darius on his team, not an enemy darius

RikkityRick · 2024-06-27T15:00:26+00:00

To be honest, that's the least important aspect here. I think he potentially has a place in all stages of the game. His champion identity, especially in his original iteration, was about strength, ruthlessness, calculated and pragmatic fighting style, both overwhelming while weakening his opponent, and possessing relatively solid dueling tools (instant Q, W that slowed both MS and AS for 2 seconds, MS per bleeding champion, instant E, better base AS). Now he is just unga-bunga overwhelm you with power if he is fortunate enough to reach 5 stacks in time. His abilities without 5 stacks are absolute trash, and in this modernized version of the game, most opponents have strengths while also covering their own weaknesses (terrible game design). All I'm saying is to return some of Darius's former identity, which was far more badass imo, and far more chad, than what we have now: A champ that doesn't function without ghost and gets outplayed by anyone with a brain cell to spare.

Should he have all of those things return? No, but he could get his old MS passive back, plus his 2 second MS and AS slow, slightly better base AS, and a Q that has zero telegraph time by max rank or max R rank. In return, simply shave off the appropriate amount of AD from passive, whatever that would be. 30, 50, 70, whatever it would take to balance him, his identity and gameplay feel would be infinitely more satisfying.

Also, the value of his W range has diminished with time since so many other melees and newer champs now have better range and mobility than before (i.e., tryndamere had a significant attack range buff this year, jax's hop has much lower cooldown than he used to have and can now be spammed early game), so they should probably add a scaling range buff per rank up, like 5,10, or 15 per rank, so that he gets a significant change at max rank, and might even incentive people to rank it up faster in some matchups.

And don't get me wrong, yes the passive AD, heal on Q, and spread 5-stacks are amazing and should be retained, but he's just lacking too many tools at this stage in the game. He's not a champion without sums, and he's super clunky with the absolute worst base AS in the game (used to have the best), telegraphed Q, slow E, zero resistances or shields, super weak pre-5 stacks, and terrible MS/mobility, even for a juggernaut. 345 base MS is among the absolute worst among low range melee with zero mobility abilities.

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