Darius
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NABans, presence and fearless: Darius across all builds. Build, best results and matchups: the selected build.
- Pick
- 4.3%picked in 113 of 2,644 games
- Ban
- 7.2%140 bans over 1,958 games, against 9.4% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,664 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 215,636 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.DraftLength
- How to play itStormraider's Surge, then Youmuu's Ghostblade, Dead Man's Plate, and Death's Dance: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compTakes its kills in duels first: more duels than 94% of top laners.Duelist
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 1.8%
- SoloQ
- 2.9%
- DraftBanned less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 7.8%
- SoloQ
- 9.4%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 30 min
- SoloQ
- 28.2 min
How to play it?
Stormraider's Surge, then Youmuu's Ghostblade, Dead Man's Plate, and Death's Dance: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesStormraider's Surge51% · 7,646
SpellsFlash + Ghost52% · 7,728
SkillsQnot collected in soloQ- Youmuu's Ghostblade
- Dead Man's Plate
- Death's Dance
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Takes its kills in duels first: more duels than 94% of top laners.
- Takes its kills in duelstop7%36% · top laners: 28%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
- Duelist
Like other top laners
- Absorbs damage
- Crowd control (CC)
- Team damage
What it is not
- Few teamfights
- Carries its own kills
- No poke
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 11 in lane, 5 in mid game and 17 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, ahead of 82% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 11 of 100 among top laners530 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 5 of 100 among top laners765 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 17 of 100 among top laners970 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 84 of 100 among top laners+404 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 82 of 100 among top laners+512 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 39 of 100 among top laners813 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 7 of 100 among top laners46% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 94 of 100 among top laners36% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 3 of 100 among top lanersrank 3 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 38 of 100 among top laners0.6 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 33 of 100 among top laners19% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
No pair measured in amateur play on this side.
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+2.9%12,551 picks of 431,266ban 9.4% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments1.8%65 picks of 3,686ban 7.8% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.0%1 picks of 2,204bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
9.7% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Top- 3.0%G122 games of 733
- 3.3%G224 games of 733
- 3.2%G3+10 games of 316
Not enough series yet: published from 30.