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Champion guide

What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.

In-game title
the Hand of Noxus
Official role
FIGHTER
Lane
Baron / Top
Difficulty
Medium
Source tier
A

Abilities

Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.

PASSIVE HEMORRHAGE

Darius's attacks and damaging abilities cause enemies to bleed for physical damage over time, stacking up to a cap. Upon reaching full stacks, Darius gains Noxian Might for a few seconds, gaining Attack Damage and applying full stacks of Hemorrhage instead of 1.

1 DECIMATE

Darius winds up and swings his axe in a wide circle. Enemies struck by the blade take more damage than those struck by the handle. Darius heals based on enemy champions hit by the blade, and applies Hemorrhage.

2 CRIPPLING STRIKE

Darius empowers his next attack to deal additional damage with a large slow.

3 APPREHEND

Darius hones his axe, passively causing his physical damage to ignore a percentage of his target's Armor. When activated, Darius sweeps up his enemies with his axe's hook and pulls them to him.

ULTIMATE NOXIAN GUILLOTINE

Darius leaps to an enemy champion and strikes a lethal blow, dealing true damage. This damage is increased for each stack of Hemorrhage on the target. If Noxian Guillotine is a killing blow, its cooldown is refreshed, granting Noxian Might and causing nearby minions and monsters to flee.

Reviewed build

The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.

Core build order

  1. Trinity Force
  2. Stridebreaker
  3. Sterak's Gage
  4. Plated Steelcaps

Runes

Situational answers

One slot, changed when the enemy team changes the problem. These are answers, not automatic purchases.

Matchups

  • 8reviewed counter links
  • 4reviewed synergy links

Harder matchups

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Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.