Mid · 27 games · NA

DariusMid build & runes · NA

Mid · 1% of games Top · 85%Jungle · 13%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+31 gold).

Win rate: 55.6%; ±18.7 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: —; too few games to rank
Pick rate: 0.1%; ban 8.7%
Games: 27; ranked solo/duo

Darius mid wins 55.6% of 27 ranked games in NA. Most players finish Youmuu's Ghostblade first, at about 12:06.

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 12:21 · 60% · 15 games

Boots

Mercury's Treads 7:48 · 63% of games

Item 2 · late game

Dead Man's Plate 19:42 · 9 of 22 games

Item 3 · late game

Death's Dance 25:36 · 5 of 15 games

Runes

Stormraider's Surge · Sorcery + Precision 37% of games · 60% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 56% of games · 60% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ghost 44% of games · 50% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Decimate first 100% of games · 56% wins Skill orders →

Pros & one-tricks lately

2 one-tricks play Darius this patch

Every game, with builds →

mniiOne-trick · 98%NA · Master · 561 LP Win vs Naafiri · 9 Oct
愛情陷阱One-trick · 85%NA · Master · 513 LP Win vs Viktor · 9 Oct
愛情陷阱One-trick · 85%NA · Master · 513 LP Loss vs Xerath · 8 Oct

When Darius wins

Win rate by game length

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

Ends before 25′55% wins41% of games · 11

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins52% of games · 14

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below Darius's own win rate (55.6%). Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Darius games

First Baron: 100% against 33%

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

First Baron 33% 100% +67

First tower 42% 67% +25

First dragon 40% 65% +25

First blood 46% 64% +18

First Voidgrubs 44% 61% +17

Rift Herald 64% 46% −18

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

Fewer control wards, more multikills

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

Fewer control wards a game0.26 against 0.63 · −59%

More multikills a game1.19 against 0.76 · +57%

Fewer assists a game3.9 against 6.3 · −38%

More damage to towers9003 against 6993 · +29%

Less damage a minute693 against 848 · −18%

About average: time spent dead, gold, minions.

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 ~12:42

Item 2done ~18:48

Item 3done ~25:36

Item 4done ~26:36

Most common full builds

Mercury's Treads › Youmuu's Ghostblade › Force of Nature › Death's Dance 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

Not enough games against this kind of team yet.

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 Potion60.0%15

Doran's Helm + Health Potion37.5%8

Doran's Shield + Health Potion75.0%4

Boots

Mercury's Treads ~7:4858.8%17

Plated Steelcaps ~6:3666.7%6

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost50.0%12

Flash + Ignite63.6%11

Exhaust + Flash66.7%3

Skills

Max

W55.6%27

Start

E80.0%10

Start

E33.3%9

Dies more than most mid laners

Before 14 minutes Darius dies 3.0 times a game (average 2.2). 43% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 48% for the average mid laner. 37% are fair 1-v-1s.

3.0deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.2)

43%involve the enemy junglerless than average (48%)

63%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (64%)

66%with no teammate nearmore than average (63%)

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 mid

Ganks: 31% in your half of mid. Collapses: 41% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 50% in your half of mid.

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 mid laner

What kills Darius

Kind of death

Darius Average

Gank 43% (avg 48%)Collapse 21% (avg 16%)1-v-1 37% (avg 36%)

Who gets the kill

Darius Average

Bot laner 5% (avg 7%)Jungler 22% (avg 27%)Support 4% (avg 6%)Mid laner 68% (avg 56%)Top laner 1% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 7:00

Darius Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 7:00.

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 mid, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 1.4 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.2 in your half of mid. Overall 1.0 kills per death.

Their half of mid 1.4 K/D 37 / 27

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 8 / 33

The bot-side river 1.9 K/D 13 / 7

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 26% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 31%). The team wins 79% when Darius is there and 73% when not.

Pros and one-tricks · patch 16.20 · 3 games

One-tricks follow up with Death's Dance

The most common choice in each group, beside every Master+ Darius mid game. Highlighted: where the group differs from everyone.

	One-tricks3 games	All Master+27 games
First item	Youmuu's Ghostblade100% of games	Youmuu's Ghostblade58% of games
Second item	Death's Dance33% of games	Dead Man's Plate41% of games
Boots	Mercury's Treads67% of games	Mercury's Treads63% of games
Keystone	Stormraider's Surge100% of games	Stormraider's Surge70% of games
Skill order	Max Q firstDecimate · 100%	Max Q firstDecimate · 100%
Win rate	66.7%±53.3 · 3 games	55.6%±18.7 · 27 games

Newest first

Every pro and one-trick game

mniiOne-trick · 98%NA · Master · 561 LP 6 / 6 / 11 Win vs Naafiri · 35:37 9 Oct
愛情陷阱One-trick · 85%NA · Master · 513 LP 3 / 6 / 5 Win vs Viktor · 23:44 9 Oct
愛情陷阱One-trick · 85%NA · Master · 513 LP 13 / 6 / 0 Loss vs Xerath · 31:14 8 Oct

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Darius mid · patch 16.20 · most games first

The players behind these games

Player	Record	Their usual build	Rank	Last game
愛情陷阱One-trick · 85%NA	1–1 50% win		Master · 513 LP	9 Oct
mniiOne-trick · 98%NA	1–0 100% win		Master · 561 LP	9 Oct

One-trick: Master or higher, with 60% or more of their last 30 days of ranked solo games (20 at least) on one champion; only those games count. Pros: the solo queue accounts listed on their Leaguepedia page. Only Darius mid games on patch 16.20 count here. Pro data from Leaguepedia (CC BY-SA). To be removed, see About & privacy.

DariusMid build & runes · NA

What most Darius players run

2 one-tricks play Darius this patch

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 100% against 33%

Fewer control wards, more multikills

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

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Darius's games

Dies more than most mid laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Darius

Ganks come at 3:00 and 7:00

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

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

One-tricks follow up with Death's Dance

Every pro and one-trick game

The players behind these games