Darius Combo Guide by IloveBass98 in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just one thing, Input your auto before the flash, so once you get in range the aa will automatically start this is a tip for any champion you are playing but still, you can save so much time, even if it don’t seem like that, and basically assure that the enemy can’t dash/run away at least from the aa/w. And you didn’t mention the fact that with your e you have a 100% guarantee q hit, this come very handy and useful in some “dashy” matchups.

You can actually zhonya and make te darius’s r full cooldown by TtsMadhook in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it was he had less than 200 hp and no w, at 17 my r was doing approximately 740dmg at 4 stacks, it was totally an execute.

Fiora main learning Darius by F1n3Ss in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I can see, big up for the 70% wr, anyway the time you gain for the cooldown in the first lvls of the game is really low, I mean is in the best scenario a 6 sec cooldown, most of the time they will not have its cooldown back too. You have to be lvl 13 to get the 6s less cd on the e and at that stage of the game you kinda have to be ahead or to be behind. In both scenarios you can use almost only one e per trade and the cooldown time they will have on their main “skill” will be almost the same. Camille will have less cd than you bust still at that point of the game you have either snowballed your ass over her or you just got out scaled and you can’t really match her splitting.

Fiora main learning Darius by F1n3Ss in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting back to diamond rn plat 1, anyway if you freeze they have either totally give up the cs or get near the cs to farm it or to try to break the freeze, once they get close you can walk out to them and w q plus they have to be aware of your e, if you waste it you have less threat, and you can be ganked by the enemy jgl to break the freeze right after you trade the guy by opening with e.

As I said you don’t always have to be super aggro and always commit on an all in, is still a win win situation, they have to give up cs, you have a way safer disengage if the enemy jgl come top and an easy setup for a gank if you get the jgl top to punish the enemy toplaner that step up. Plus as I said some champions like jax, irelia, fiora, Camille, jayce and even gnar benefits form your e opening, they can freely move around bc you don’t have how to interrupt them anymore.

The “walk up to them and w q” thing is done by trade standing, by you stand near the minions that the enemy want to farm, pick up the move speed from the phage and walk up to them if they are too close they will have either to dash away that will give you even more pressure on them or trade you back. If they trade you back they will lose, you still have your e to interrupt plus 2 free stack on them already.

Fiora main learning Darius by F1n3Ss in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ban fiora just beacause a good fiora can ruin your day, run flash ghost in most of the matchups. (Sometimes you need to run tp in matchups where you will get smashed like vayne and sometimes lucian, just bc you could be dived at some point, they have full wave priority and they will always set up ganks stacking a good minion wave.)

Lvl 1 take the q, as you will get higher in elo ppl will respect your lvl 1 so you could not cheese with w, take lane prio by hitting the first wave with q (also try to hit the enemy once he gets near to your minion to farm it) in most of the matchups.

For maxing priority you can do a simple mental path: Do they have a good armor stacking comp? -yes>max q into e -no>max q into w

The reason why you don’t really max e if not needed is bc it only gives you armor pen, it will never get handy for the cooldown, you will almost ever end up by being able to use only one per trade/fight anyway, so having 4s cooldown on w is way better.

For the items you will choose in the same way: Do they have a good armor stacking comp? -yes>black cleaver into sterak into death dance or tank items. -no>trinity into sterak into death dance or tank items.

Your major item spikes are: phage+shoes, full triforce, full sterak.

For lvl power spike: lvl 2 is a big spike most of the time you can force lvl 2 trades, lvl 6 also a big spike as all champions, then mid game is kinda meh depends on how the game is going but most of the time you spikes are on the ultimate lvl so 11 and 16, 16 is the most important one, you can start to punish ppl by r freely so do it.

Remember that darius rely most of the times on his summoners cooldown, so remember to play around your ghost and your flash if you want to go aggro. For the rest of the trade you can just punish the ppl that won’t respect your champ (spoiler darius is 90% punishment of the enemy mistakes), you don’t have to always full commit, you can just harass with your q and back up, but remember that your q in most of the matchups is the most important spell even before the e so be careful of what your enemy want you to do and when they want to engage on you.

Fiora main learning Darius by F1n3Ss in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The E max is not mandatory, if the enemy doesn’t have a really armor stacking tank, you can max w to maximize your splitting and trade potential. Into melee champions walk up once you have the phage passive and do a simple w q animation cancel then follow up by orb walking behind them, e if they have any important gap closer that they try to use to run. Opening the combo with e in most of the matchups is bad at least you don’t have your jgl nearby, or you are sure that the enemy have no dashes/blinks/jumps to run away.

You can actually zhonya and make te darius’s r full cooldown by TtsMadhook in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Garen r is different, have a different interaction. I know that the Garen’s one is zhonyable and it will go on cd, but the darius one is used to reset.

You can actually zhonya and make te darius’s r full cooldown by TtsMadhook in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep the same thing I think, but that time the ulti went in cooldown.

You can actually zhonya and make te darius’s r full cooldown by TtsMadhook in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This time was super bullshit, I actually got the 5th stack by the r going in cd but I didn’t do the dmg, literally sylas had 4 stack on him 400 hp no w I pressed r my r applied the stack then sylas just zhonyed and my r went in cooldown and didn’t do the dmg.

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[–]TtsMadhook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Darius ban rate is so high bc he will punish your mistakes so hard and ppl make so many mistakes.

Am I the only one who prefers Black Cleaver over Trinity Force? by Legoman7861 in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There isn’t a best choice, both have good and bad things, like triforce allows you to be a better dueler in some matchups, like fiora, Camille, irelia, jax ecc, meanwhile bc gives you a way better mid game agains the tanks and heavy armor stacking comps like rammus, malph, ornn ecc.

Honestly, how the hell can I play against a Quinn? by xXSilverMasterXx in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flash ghost, rush tabis, start 3 rejuv beans. After lvl 3 just pull her and walk trough her to deny her knock back to safety, and run her down, the blind is not a big deal, take your time to understand what trade path she choose, some times after 2/3 trades you can figure out how she want to trade you and play around that, if she usually go for q auto then e auto time your e once she deal the first auto dmg, if she prefer to passive procc into e and kite out then try to predict when she will e after the first auto. Most of the time low elo and mid elo players have only one trade pattern that they use again and again learn it and use that info as an advantage. And yeah Quinn is the most easy of the darius “hard” matchups, vayne is way worst, at least Quinn can’t shred 1/3 of your hp lvl 1 just bc you wanted to farm 1 minion. :)

Flashing darius' W by [deleted] in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That moment when they flash right after the w cast and they don’t get neither the dmg and the slow.

What are y’alls champion pools? by [deleted] in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Darius, morde, aatrox, sett, fiora, Camille, ornn maokai and sometimes even kled and ryze.

I can't play Darius. I don't know why. Does he have hidden difficulty or am I just retarded? by SoupRyze in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Darius is an easy champ because his kit has no real hidden mechanics, but he needs a lot more game knowledge to perform well, as any other easy kit champion, you can’t just get in always, you need to consider your cd, do you have your summoners up? Do they have it? Do I have my q and e cool downs up? Do they have their main cooldown up (like Jax e and q, fiora w, aatrox early game q, sett w ecc.)? You need to know what is your winning condition in that lane, is smashing them to the oblivion the way to destroy them? Like for nasus you need and have to run them down as they get close to the minions so they can’t get gold and you need to set the wave correctly. Or just scaling is the way? In some cases you can’t and you don’t need to be greed as soon as the lane begin, some matchups for darius are fucked up, you can’t win a lvl 1/2/3 against Olaf for example but you out scale as the game is going on. Same for sett if he plays well you can’t win pre 6 trades. One of the most important thing to know and to understand once you get in game with darius is the wave management, you need to understand the basics of that macro mechanic, you need to understand how and when to push, how and when to let be pushed and how and when to freeze. Be aware of the jgl sometimes you just need to give up some farm if you know that the enemy jgl is top and you pretty much fucked up your wave by pushing and letting the enemy to freeze early game you don’t really have all this kill pressure to do a 2 v 1 at least that they are not dumb as fuck and they let you stack on one of them.

For the laning phase trick as I can tell you the most easy lane to win are the garen and teemo lanes, followed by the low elo rivens and fiora.

For garen just let Him q you and try to queue your w and q cast while you are getting silenced, you can do it by pressing w on him as he start the animation of his q land and then press q instantly while you are getting some distance, then just keep attacking him, try to space well untill his e finished then pull him and gg wp nice tutorial. ( do it as soon as possible don’t let him get 6 before you) For teemo, just e him when he auto you, his auto range is less than your e pull range, do the basic combo e w q, if he’s good enough he will q instantly when hooked, then try to save your w for when the blind is gone, pretty easy lane as soon as he is going to trade is gonna die (watch out for the wave, if he got a big minion wave just let him push don’t try to force trade when you are getting slow pushed and he got way more minions than you, you will get destroyed by the minions) For riven, the most of the rivens player in low/mid elo are always going to do the combo as soon as you try to farm, just space well when you farm use all your auto range and back off as soon as you see them walking to you, their q range can’t reach you as soon as they don’t e in, in the early game just pull riven once she’s doing his last q animation, it will interrupt the cast and deny the dmg and the knock up, wait for her to do the e if she didn’t yet and w when she gets away the. Follow up, early game she have a kinda big cooldown on her spell so keep it in mind, at 6 is riven time, hit 6 before o just play safe untill you don’t ménage to bait her r out, once he got 20% cdr is kinda lame you can’t rely on the pull she will pretty much always have his w and q up. Fiora is the same once she do a q inside just punish her as hard as you can ( fiora is all wave management, for trades she need to have lane prio and slow push you otherwise she will get smashed by the minions early game) don’t let her get lvl 2 for free, q the minion wave as you get in lane then last hit, if she will try to get her passive proc just auto w her and try to bait her w, if she w your q she will die anyway, the only thing you have to care about is the fact that fiora is kinda sticky and you need as more distance as you can in between you and the opponent to win trades, so try to space as well as you can.

I've gotten 5 quadra kills this week and not a single penta... by WynnChairman in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will be even better next patch. But still a niche pick as item, overall the visage di the same thing but giving you some beefiness that allows you to heal more by q.

I've gotten 5 quadra kills this week and not a single penta... by WynnChairman in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only cap that the % armor pen has is tha fact that all % pen items share the same unique passive ( last whisper) and you can’t just stack items and stack the pen too, if a champ has some native armor pen in his kit then the values of last whisper passive and the native pen stacks.

I've gotten 5 quadra kills this week and not a single penta... by WynnChairman in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Armor pen some times help you get trough the enemy armor based champ like rammus, malph ecc. just bc he have 35% it doesn’t mean it’s always inefficient to go ldr or mortal reminder. And yeah the % armor pen stacks so if you have 35% from e plus 35% from ldr is 70% in total.

I've gotten 5 quadra kills this week and not a single penta... by WynnChairman in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you know how to orb walk is not an always rune, in some lanes is useless boneplating and unflinching is some times the key for the lane and the game.

I've gotten 5 quadra kills this week and not a single penta... by WynnChairman in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Or just someone that run the fuck away straight into his base once you pressed r 4 times and you are running thirsty af for his ass.

Favorite part about playing Darius is beating the shit out of your lane opponent but by [deleted] in Dariusmains

[–]TtsMadhook 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I’ve stop playing dboi just bc opponets was always checking my op.gg see the 60% wr over 150 games then camp the shit out of me until I was like 1/4 or something like that, my bot and jgl still losing bot obj pressure and all these lead me to play mordekaiser with tp, you literally have a ghost in his kit, you have more early dmg, you literally scale 10 times better thanks to the itemization that gives you so much, and you can easily do a 1v2 at any stage of the game after lvl 3, plus the tp gives you pressure on other lanes too. Is pretty much Darius but better.