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Darius

Top · 82% of games Jungle · 15%

Strongest when games end at 15–20 minutes (59%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+253 gold).

Win rate: 50.9%; ±3.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #32 of 95
Pick rate: 4.1%; ban 5.3%
Games: 778; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Darius top wins 50.9% of 778 ranked games, rank 32 of 95 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Youmuu's Ghostblade first, at about 11:54.

The build at a glance

What most Darius players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Youmuu's Ghostblade 12:13 · 58% · 433 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 9:24 · 61% of games

Item 2

Dead Man's Plate 19:21 · 72% · 264 games

Item 3

Death's Dance 24:56 · 46% · 71 games

Item 4 · late game

Force of Nature 30:00 · 22 of 132 games

Item 5 · late game

Randuin's Omen 39:30 · 5 of 23 games

Runes

Stormraider's Surge · Sorcery + Precision 23% of games · 48% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 61% of games · 52% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 51% of games · 52% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Decimate first 97% of games · 51% wins Skill orders →

When Darius wins

Best when games end at 15–20′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′55% wins35% of games · 273

Lasts 25′ or more49% wins64% of games · 497

Lanes

Watch out for Mordekaiser, Jayce, Rumble

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Darius games

First Baron: 80% against 33%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 33% 80% +47

First tower 32% 68% +36

Rift Herald 38% 67% +29

First dragon 37% 64% +26

First blood 44% 58% +15

First Voidgrubs 47% 55% +8

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Darius plays

More multikills, fewer control wards

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More multikills a game0.79 against 0.41 · +93%

Fewer control wards a game0.50 against 0.68 · −26%

Fewer assists a game4.0 against 5.2 · −24%

More solo kills a game2.4 against 2.1 · +18%

Less damage a minute688 against 775 · −11%

About average: gold, time spent dead, kill participation, vision, damage to towers, minions, deaths.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~12:24

Item 2done ~19:54

Item 3done ~24:54

Item 4done ~29:54

Item 5done ~35:00

Most common full builds

Youmuu's Ghostblade › Plated Steelcaps › Dead Man's Plate › Death's Dance 56.0%50 games

Plated Steelcaps › Youmuu's Ghostblade › Dead Man's Plate › Force of Nature 54.3%35 games

Youmuu's Ghostblade › Plated Steelcaps › Dead Man's Plate › Sterak's Gage 45.8%24 games

Plated Steelcaps › Stridebreaker › Sterak's Gage › Death's Dance 91.7%12 games

Plated Steelcaps › Youmuu's Ghostblade › Death's Dance › Dead Man's Plate 72.7%11 games

Plated Steelcaps › Stridebreaker › Dead Man's Plate › Sterak's Gage 40.0%10 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Randuin's Omen 86%7

Kaenic Rookern 71%7

Spear of Shojin 55%11

Sterak's Gage 51%73

Dead Man's Plate 47%110

Force of Nature 45%89

Death's Dance 39%57

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion52.3%478

Doran's Shield + Health Potion48.3%232

Doran's Helm + Health Potion50.0%44

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~9:2451.2%471

Mercury's Treads ~13:0053.8%186

Boots of Swiftness ~11:1848.3%87

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost51.6%399

Flash + Ignite51.6%217

Exhaust + Flash46.1%154

Skills

Max

W50.7%755

Max

E58.8%17

Start

E50.6%251

Start

E53.4%208

Hard lanes

Watch out for Mordekaiser, Jayce, Rumble

Easy lanes

Good into Ambessa, Volibear, Olaf

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 21 of 33, wins 15 of them

Expected: what Darius's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (26)

Pantheon 78% · 9

Teemo 56% · 9

Nasus 50% · 8

Corki 71% · 7

Riven 29% · 7

Warwick 17% · 6

Akali 83% · 6

Sion 83% · 6

Illaoi 50% · 6

Trundle 17% · 6

Vladimir 40% · 5

Quinn 20% · 5

Aurora 20% · 5

Poppy 80% · 5

Yorick 50% · 4

Kayle 50% · 4

Sylas 25% · 4

Zilean 50% · 4

Tahm Kench 100% · 4

Udyr 67% · 3

Sejuani 100% · 3

Briar 0% · 3

Cassiopeia 67% · 3

Anivia 0% · 3

Wukong 67% · 3

Kayn 67% · 3

Darius vs Camille · 42 games · Solid sample

Darius does better than expected here

57%winsexpected 50%

+714gold at 15′average +253

+13.8minions at 10′ahead or behind

12%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.62 a game

Gold lead against Camille Darius's average lead

Against Camille, Darius is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 64% of games and wins 67% of those. When behind, Darius wins 40%.

Ahead at 15′67% wins27 games

Behind at 15′40% wins15 games

Full Darius vs Camille page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Darius games: Jarvan IV, Yasuo, Aphelios, Seraphine

Enemy jungle Trouble

Jarvan IV41% · exp. 53% −1332 games

Wukong38% · exp. 48% −1132 games

Zac35% · exp. 50% −1417 games

Easier

Kha'Zix66% · exp. 53% +1332 games

Master Yi53% · exp. 46% +715 games

Talon53% · exp. 49% +434 games

Enemy mid Trouble

Yasuo31% · exp. 48% −1726 games

Viktor41% · exp. 53% −1234 games

Kassadin41% · exp. 55% −1417 games

Easier

Locke61% · exp. 52% +1036 games

Ahri61% · exp. 51% +1033 games

Katarina60% · exp. 50% +1025 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Aphelios35% · exp. 55% −1931 games

Yasuo24% · exp. 48% −2417 games

Viktor29% · exp. 51% −2117 games

Easier

Zeri72% · exp. 52% +2025 games

Kai'Sa62% · exp. 52% +1061 games

Ezreal60% · exp. 54% +635 games

Enemy support Trouble

Seraphine35% · exp. 53% −1823 games

Rell35% · exp. 48% −1331 games

Milio40% · exp. 52% −1220 games

Easier

Senna63% · exp. 48% +1519 games

Blitzcrank60% · exp. 50% +942 games

Leona60% · exp. 50% +1030 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Darius dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.4). 42% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 48% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′about average (2.4)

42%involve the enemy junglerabout average (40%)

52%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (49%)

86%with no teammate nearmore than average (83%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Darius dies before 14 minutes

Ganked in their half of top lane, collapsed on in your half of top lane

Ganks: 43% in their half of top lane. Collapses: 43% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 49% in your half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Darius

Kind of death

Darius Average

Gank 42% (avg 40%)Collapse 10% (avg 9%)1-v-1 48% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Darius Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 2%)Jungler 24% (avg 24%)Support 2% (avg 2%)Mid laner 7% (avg 7%)Top laner 65% (avg 63%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–10:00, then every minute

Darius Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 5:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Darius; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Darius wins fights

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.3 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.5 in your half of top lane. Overall 1.0 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 1.3 K/D 1100 / 829

Your half of top lane 0.5 K/D 448 / 864

The top-side river 1.3 K/D 158 / 123

Your jungle 2.3 K/D 83 / 36

Their jungle 2.0 K/D 73 / 37

Their half of mid 5.8 K/D 29 / 5

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Darius wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 18% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 72% when Darius is there and 68% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 16:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Darius it is 53% against 50%.

Darius

What most Darius players run

Best when games end at 15–20′

Watch out for Mordekaiser, Jayce, Rumble

First Baron: 80% against 33%

More multikills, fewer control wards

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Mordekaiser, Jayce, Rumble

Good into Ambessa, Volibear, Olaf

Ahead at 15 against 21 of 33, wins 15 of them

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Enemies that cost Darius games: Jarvan IV, Yasuo, Aphelios, Seraphine

Teammates that change Darius's games

Dies about as often as most top laners

Ganked in their half of top lane, collapsed on in your half of top lane

What kills Darius

Ganks come at 3:00 and 5:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid