Top · 159 games · KR

Darius

Top · 85% of games Jungle · 13%

Strongest when games end at 15–20 minutes (68%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+471 gold).

Win rate: 50.9%; ±7.8 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #30 of 76
Pick rate: 2.5%; ban 2.0%
Games: 159; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Darius top wins 50.9% of 159 ranked games in KR, rank 30 of 76 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Youmuu's Ghostblade first, at about 12:24.

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 →

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 7:18 · 62% of games

Item 1

Youmuu's Ghostblade 12:20 · 42% · 62 games

Item 2

Dead Man's Plate 19:46 · 77% · 34 games

Item 3

Death's Dance 25:48 · 80% · 12 games

Item 4 · late game

Sterak's Gage 27:06 · 3 of 16 games

Runes

Conqueror · Precision + Sorcery 13% of games · 50% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 53% of games · 54% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 62% of games · 48% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Decimate first 99% of games · 51% wins Skill orders →

When Darius wins

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

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

Ends before 25′63% wins43% of games · 68

Lasts 25′ or more41% wins55% of games · 88

Lanes

Good into K'Sante

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

What wins Darius games

First Baron: 75% against 38%

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

First Baron 38% 75% +37

First tower 35% 65% +30

Rift Herald 40% 63% +23

First dragon 39% 61% +22

First blood 39% 61% +22

First Voidgrubs 48% 53% +6

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, more solo kills

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

More multikills a game0.70 against 0.38 · +84%

More solo kills a game2.6 against 1.9 · +36%

Fewer assists a game3.8 against 4.9 · −23%

Fewer control wards a game0.87 against 1.12 · −22%

Less share of team damage19% against 22% · −13%

About average: minions, vision, time spent dead, kill participation, gold, 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 ~12:54

Item 2done ~20:12

Item 3done ~25:30

Item 4done ~28:42

Most common full builds

Plated Steelcaps › Youmuu's Ghostblade › Dead Man's Plate › Death's Dance 50.0%12 games

Youmuu's Ghostblade › Plated Steelcaps › Dead Man's Plate › Sterak's Gage 0.0%3 games

Stridebreaker › Mercury's Treads › Dead Man's Plate › Sterak's Gage 33.3%3 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

Force of Nature 43%7

Dead Man's Plate 40%10

Sterak's Gage 35%20

Death's Dance 18%11

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 Potion53.6%84

Doran's Shield + Health Potion46.7%60

Doran's Helm + Health Potion61.5%13

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~7:1851.5%99

Mercury's Treads ~11:5451.2%43

Boots of Swiftness ~11:1262.5%8

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost48.0%98

Flash + Ignite53.3%30

Exhaust + Flash55.2%29

Skills

Max

W50.6%158

Start

E43.9%57

Start

W54.5%44

Hard lanes

No clearly hard lane yet

Easy lanes

Good into K'Sante

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 2 of 2, wins 2 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 (20)

Kennen 63% · 8

Camille 63% · 8

Zaahen 50% · 8

Ambessa 71% · 7

Gangplank 67% · 6

Jayce 17% · 6

Yone 83% · 6

Olaf 60% · 5

Volibear 50% · 4

Fiora 50% · 4

Vayne 25% · 4

Corki 75% · 4

Singed 33% · 3

Irelia 67% · 3

Gnar 33% · 3

Pantheon 67% · 3

Kled 33% · 3

Yasuo 33% · 3

Urgot 33% · 3

Dr. Mundo 67% · 3

Darius vs K'Sante · 11 games · Early read

Darius does better than expected here

64%winsexpected 54%

+167gold at 15′average +471

+10.0minions at 10′ahead or behind

0%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.27 a game

Gold lead against K'Sante Darius's average lead

Against K'Sante, Darius is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 45% of games and wins 80% of those. When behind, Darius wins 50%.

Ahead at 15′80% wins5 games

Behind at 15′50% wins6 games

Full Darius vs K'Sante page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Darius games: Lee Sin

Enemy jungle Trouble

Lee Sin29% · exp. 51% −2117 games

Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy mid Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Kai'Sa71% · exp. 50% +2117 games

Yunara67% · exp. 53% +1415 games

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Nautilus59% · exp. 54% +517 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, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Darius dies 2.4 times a game (average 2.5). 45% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 47% are fair 1-v-1s.

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

45%involve the enemy junglermore than average (40%)

53%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

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

Ganks: 40% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 46% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 49% in their 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 45% (avg 40%)Collapse 7% (avg 9%)1-v-1 47% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Darius Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 1%)Jungler 26% (avg 25%)Support 1% (avg 2%)Mid laner 7% (avg 8%)Top laner 66% (avg 62%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 4:00–10:00, then every minute

Darius Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 4:00. 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: 1.5 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.6 in your half of top lane. Overall 1.2 kills per death.

Their half of top lane 1.5 K/D 255 / 166

Your half of top lane 0.6 K/D 103 / 161

The top-side river 1.0 K/D 30 / 29

Their jungle 2.4 K/D 19 / 8

Your jungle 3.0 K/D 15 / 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 dragonsWorth knowingNear 17% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 16%). The team wins 56% when Darius is there and 65% 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 50% against 50%; for Darius it is 52% against 50%.

Darius

What most Darius players run

Wins early, fades from 25 minutes

Good into K'Sante

First Baron: 75% against 38%

More multikills, more solo kills

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

No clearly hard lane yet

Good into K'Sante

Ahead at 15 against 2 of 2, wins 2 of them

Darius does better than expected here

About what you would expect

Enemies that cost Darius games: Lee Sin

Teammates that change Darius's games

Dies about as often as most top laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Darius

Ganks come at 4:00–10:00, 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