u/DarussyDunk

No matter what I build or what I take, I can't help but just get one shot by this freak of a champ post 6. I could be 2 kills up, but come level 6 I'm basically a melee minion. How do I play the matchup better or itemize against him? He can literally fully one shot me before he even gets his second W proc off. Short trades don't seem to work, long extended fights don't seem to work either anti heal or anti shield sure as hell doesn't work. So what am I actually doing wrong? I'll freeze the wave, he'll just walk under my tower, press his buttons, take half my health, walk off, come back and do the exact same thing and I'm cooked, even if he's 0-2. It's the one champion I can never seem to properly lane against and come out at least even at a minimum.

Hey, I'm not really a new new Darius player. I have around 600k mastery, but something has finally clicked, and I want to start taking the game a bit more seriously.

I've stopped perma coin flipping level 1s in top lane and actually started using my brain, and it's showing. I've climbed to around Gold/Plat MMR in Flex currently Gold 2 in flex and G4 in soloq. I was at Bronze/high silver MMR before in flex and medium silver low gold in solo q because I didn't really care. I was just locking in fun champs and messing around with friends.

I know Flex isn't as serious as Solo/Duo, but I randomly found a Silver Olaf one trick who asked for top one game, so I went jungle instead. We absolutely turbo clapped that game, and we've been playing Flex together ever since while I get more comfortable in the jungle. It's been going really well.

The one thing I feel I'm lacking is item knowledge. I never really know when I should be building what or what lane to path towards. Sometimes I'll go full tank with things like Frozen Heart and Randuins into comps with the wind shitters, a fed Viego, or other heavy auto attack comps. Other times I'll just go full MR into 4-5 heavy magic damage comps. I honestly can't tell if that's the the correct dunkamentals or if I should just stick to a standard bruiser build most games.

I know sites have a bit of data on items wr ect but I'm not really a fan of looking at the sites because they just give general statistics, and I feel like a lot of games need different item choices depending on the situation of who's fed what item to build second ect.

Does anyone have some general Darius build or jungle advicee? Things like pathing, when it's good to invade and bully the enemy jungler, when certain items are mandatory, or when i should swap rune pages i would be forever grateful for information.

Right now I exclusively run Stormraiders with Blue Smite and Youmuu's because I'm completely addicted to movement speed setup "just kite him xD".